• Advice
on a joint venture and related questions of foreign investments in Ghana's
telecommunication sector specifically, and investment in
Ghana generally e.g. regulatory framework, television and radio broadcasting,
frequency registration, constitutionality of the regulatory framework,
customs and excise, investment incentives for telecommunications sector,
exchange controls, remittance of investment revenue, programme content
rules, media and cross-ownership, regulations concerning copyright,
piracy, unauthorized reception and transmission of broadcasting signals,
placement of satellite dishes and compulsory land acquisition for foreign
investors.
• Advice
on supply of equipment to the then state telecommunications corporation
and the enforceability of arbitration awards, tax considerations
of
telecommunications equipment supply contracts and enforceability of
tax indemnities.
• Advice
on incorporation of company for satellite communications venture
and manufacturing of satellite communication equipment.
• Advice
on a proposed cellular phone network for Ghana.
• Legal
Due Diligence in connection with the acquisition of shares in a telecommunications
company.
• Advice
on tender, supply and sales contracts, procedures involved in selling
communications equipment to a Ghanaian company.
• Legal
representation of an American telecommunications corporation and
its local subsidiary and advice on negotiation of renewal in respect
of its national operating licence, transfer of shares from a local
shareholder
and miscellaneous corporate issues.
• Review
of a loan agreement in respect of finance for the design and supply,
installation, testing and commissioning of a customer access
network, subcontract agreement for the commissioning of a copper subscriber
access network.
• Legal
representation in an action for the enforcement of bonds and guarantees
on subcontracts awarded by a foreign telecommunications construction
company to local companies in Ghana.
• Legal
representation to a major Hong Kong telecommunications conglomerate
and advice on strategy for restructuring the management of its local
subsidiary.
• Advice
to a foreign telecommunications company on the recovery of possession
of telecommunications equipment and legal action to repossess the
equipment
and other contractual rights from local partner.
• Transaction
counsel on a $100,000,000 loan agreement to the first national telecommunications
operator for the expansion of the national telecommunications
network.
• Legal representation of the second national operator in relation
to a $70,000,000 fine proposed to be levied by the NCA.