Nania Owusu-Ankomah Sackey

Practice Areas

Arbitration & Mediation

Dispute Resolution

Professional Memberships

She is a member of the Court of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and President of the LCIA African Users’ Council. She is Chair of the Ghana Chapter of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) and a member of the English Commercial Bar (COMBAR) Africa Committee. Nania is also a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration & ADR and a board member of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Centre.

She is a member of the Ghana Bar Association, Middle Temple Inns of Court and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK).

Publications

Integration of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Through the Law, (2016-2020) 24 Review of Ghana Law

The Guide to Dispute Resolution in Africa 2022, co-author of Ghana Chapter with Ace Anan Ankomah. (November 2021)

IBA Arbitration Committee, Ghana Country Report on the Local Requirements for the Validity of the Enforcement of the Arbitral Award (September 2020).

Enforcement of Arbitral Awards in Nigeria and Ghana, published in Hogan Lovells LLP Africa Newsletter (September 2019).

Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Africa: An Analysis of the Regime in South Africa and Ghana, published by Lexology (2019)

Integration of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Through the Law. (October 2019) co-authored with Ace Anan Ankomah. (Paper presented to the ECOWAS Court of Justice International Conference)

Lex Mundi Global Arbitration Guide (author of Ghana Chapter and Contributor to the Guide) (November 2018)

A Guide to Dispute Resolution in Africa: A Multijurisdictional Review (2nd Edition, Herbert Smith Freehills), co-author of Ghana Chapter with Ace Anan Ankomah. (2016).

A Guide to Dispute Resolution in Africa: A Multijurisdictional Review (1st Edition, Herbert Smith Freehills), co-author of Ghana Chapter with Ace Anan Ankomah. (2013).

Books

Arbitration in Africa: A Review of Key Jurisdictions (Sweet & Maxwell, 2016), contributor to chapter on Ghana.

Personal

Nania is a Partner in the Disputes practice group of the firm. She regularly advises and represents clients in a range of high value litigation and arbitration disputes and is highly regarded by her peers and clients for her experience in cross-border disputes. She also sits as an arbitrator in both international and domestic arbitrations in institutional and ad hoc proceedings. She has been appointed as sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator by the LCIA, ICC and Ghana Arbitration Centre, and is also listed on CPR’s Panels of Distinguished Neutrals and the Ghana ADR Hub List of Arbitrators.

She previously served as Co-Chair of the Africa Arbitration Group of the International Bar Association (IBA) Arbitration Committee, after serving as editor of the IBA Arbitration Committee Newsletter. Nania was formerly a member of the three-panel Electronic Communications Tribunal of the Republic of Ghana, a quasi-judicial body that hears appeals in respect of the regulation and licensing of telecommunications companies, television stations and radio stations in Ghana. She was part of the Task Force for the Commonwealth International Arbitration Study commissioned by the Commonwealth Secretariat, which comprised leading arbitration practitioners within the Commonwealth. She regularly delivers training on various aspects of arbitration practice and also regularly speaks at arbitration conferences.

She lectures in Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Ghana School of Law and is called to the Bar in England and Wales and in Ghana.

Nania holds a B.A(Hons) from the University of Ghana, a Qualifying Law Degree & LLM from the University of Leeds and a Qualifying Certificate in Law from the Ghana School of Law. She undertook the Bar Vocational Course at the College of Law (now University of Law) in London, where she obtained a Post-graduate Diploma in Law.

Clients

Tullow, Epiroc, Stena Drilling Limited, Champion X, Stanbic Bank Ghana Limited, AngloGold Ashanti (GH) Ltd., Abosso Goldfields Limited, American Tower Company Limited, Moringa Mauritius Africa and Moringa SCA SICAR, Ghana Oil Palm Development Company Limited, Monjasa DMCC, GOS Limited, FBN Bank Limited and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.