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Emmanuel Amofa is the Founder and Managing Partner of Amofa & Partners. His areas of expertise and interest include Corporate Law, Investment Law and Negotiation, Arbitration and Mediation, Civil Litigation, Land Law, International Commercial Law, International Business Transactions, Negotiation of Commercial Transactions, Construction Law, Petroleum and Energy Law, Legal Sector Reform, Privatisation and Banking Law.
Emmanuel has expertise in domestic and international arbitration practice and has acted as counsel and arbitrator. He has served as Sole Arbitrator, Co-Arbitrator and Chairman in several domestic arbitrators under the Rules and Procedures of the Ghana Arbitration Centre and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Act, 2010 (Act 798).
He was lead Counsel in major International arbitrations involving State parties and multinational companies under the auspecies of the London Court of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).
Emmanuel is a Lecturer in Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms at the Ghana School of Law and an adjunct lecturer at the University of Ghana School of Law.
He has been the administrator of the Ghana Arbitration Centre since its incorporation in 1996 and a Panel member of Arbitrators at the International Centre for settlement of Investment Disputes, Washington DC.
Emmanuel was admitted to the Ghana Bar in 1996 and is a member of the Ghana Bar Association. He is the country contributor for Ghana on contemporary law on arbitration in Ghana published in Arbitration in Africa: A practitioner’s Guide, Kluwer Law International, 2013 edited by Boseman Lise. Authored Chapter on Ghana Arbitration Centre in Onyema Emilia (gen ed.) The Transformation of Arbitration in Africa: The Role of Arbitral Institutions.