Julio de-Medeiros, Esq. holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law (LLB) from the University of Ghana, a qualifying certificate in law (QCL) from the Ghana School of Law, He has been admitted to the Ghana Bar and a member of the Ghana Bar Association. He is a practicing lawyer with vast experience in litigation, cooperate law, regulatory compliance as well as labour law. He is a member of the Ghana Bar Association and International Bar Association

Mr. De-Medeiros also dabbles as an adjunct law lecturer at Regent University; he lectures company law, business law and partnership law.

He sits on many boards as company secretary. He is also a director of ICARUS UK. LLP and director secretary of GLK GH LTD a subsidiary of GLK UK.LLP. He has been involved in several high level international negotiations. He is currently the lead counsel for the negotiation towards the building of the first Thermoaerohydraulic power project in Ghana, between the Government of Ghana and Ingenieur Consultant International of France, and also the solicitor for British West African Airline who are in the process of setting up in Ghana.

Before he set up De Medeiros and Associates, he was the deputy managing consultant of Akyianu & Associates. In that role, he headed the litigation department and was the lead counsel for companies like, United Bank for Africa, Standard Chartered Bank, National Investment Bank, Amalgamated Bank amongst others.

Education: University of Ghana Legon 1975 (LLB). Ghana Law School (BL 1978) Post Graduate Diploma in International Law and International Humanitarian Law 1994 N.Y. (1997-1998). Assistant State Attorney, Tamale Ghana (1980 – 1981) Senior Counsel Naoferg Chambers Accra (1986-1996) special OAU Envoy to Namibia and Legal Adviser to the OAU observer mission in Windhoek Namibia. (1993-1996) Legal Adviser U.N Headquarters N.Y. (1996-1998) Legal Adviser to the Government of Ghana and the Divestiture Implementation Committee Programme (Privatisation expert) July 2000 -2001 appointed Head Legal Adviser jointly by Ghana’s Finance Ministry and the World Ghana’s procurement Act (Procurement/Legal Expert).

1999 to date – Private Legal Practitioner Accra – Member of GBA, and former member of its Human Rights Committee. Founder and Executive Director of the Ghana Centre for the protection of Human Rights 2000 – to date. Has been since 1990 Vice President and representative for Anglophone Africa for the Association of African Jurists, AJA Dakar Senegal.

FOCUS:  Maritime, Aviation, Commercial, Corporate, Real Property, Civil
Litigation, IT & ICT Law Privatisation/Procurement Expert.

Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah is in active practice as a corporate and commercial Barrister and Solicitor in Ghana. He was called to the Bar and admitted to the Solicitors’ roll of the Republic of Ghana in 2010, two years after being called to the Bar of England and Wales.

In practice, Nana has undertaken legal work for both national and international clients, including but not limited to telecommunication companies and various financial institutions in and outside Ghana. Within the telecommunications sector, Nana has represented various telecommunication companies in various disputes including but not limited to high -value commercial disputes with suppliers and independent distributorsin addition to copyright, employment and contractual disputes. Further, Nana’s strong understanding of financial instrument such as letters of credit and bank guarantees has assisted in his legal practice for not only financial institutions but many commercial transactions.

Nana’s skilled negotiations have resulted in the sustainable resolution of some of the complicated land disputes and savings to the parties involved. His experience in the superior courts of Ghana including the Supreme Court together with an attention to detail, and understanding of the core of any dispute ensures that clients’ needs are met. Before going to private practice, Nana worked for Vodafone, an international telecommunications company as its Contracts Manager.

He was responsible for setting up the contracts management section within the Vodafone Business Solution in 2009 before moving to the Litigations and Dispute Resolutions section of the Legal Department, where he represented the company in court as its counsel in various commercial disputes. Nana, as mentioned above, was first called to the Bar of the England and Wales in the year 2008 by the Honourable Society of Lincolns Inn and also has a postgraduate degree in advance international trade practice from the BPP Law School, London.