Susan-Barbara Boye

Practice Areas

Telecommunications, Media, Technology, Business & Industry, Corporate, Commercial

Career

Partner/Head, Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah, Corporate Commercial (2018 - date),

Partner / Head, Technology, Media & Telecoms, (2010 - 2017);

Lecturer, International Environmental Law module of the MBA Oil and Gas Management Programme, Ghana Technology University College (2011 - 2012);

Deputy Head, Regulatory Affairs, Ghana Telecommunications Company (2005 -2010);

Legal Consultant, Ghana Telecommunications Company (2004 -2005);

Senior Associate, Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah (2002 - 2004);

Financial Management Intern, American Red Cross of Greater Chicago,Illinois, USA (2001 - 2001);

Research Associate, Bentsi-Enchill & Letsa(1995);

Legal Officer, DataCenta Limited (1991 - 1994)

Professional Memberships

Member, Ghana Bar Association

Member, New York State Bar Association

Member, American Bar Association

Personal

Susan has extensive experience in corporate and commercial transactions. She has worked on several high value corporate transactions for both international and local corporations. She has the requisite in-depth expertise and experience to structure, negotiate and advise on high level transactions.

Publications

Co-contributor to Data Protection in Ghana: Overview (A Q&A guide to data protection in Ghana.) for Thomson Reuters Practical Law in December 2019.

Co-contributor to “Interconnect Clearinghouse: The risks of telecommunications monopoly” Graphic Online.

An oped to the B&FT on the Kente debate in June 2012.

Co-contributor to an article on Patent protection in Ghana published in the Ghana Business & Finance Magazine in May 2017.

Co-contributor to 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 Ghana Chapter – Getting the Deal Through, Telecoms & Media published by Law Business Research in the United Kingdom.

Contributor for Ghana summary for the International Privacy Law Chapter in Proskauer on Privacy: A Guide to Privacy and Data Security Law In the Information Age (Second Edition) published by the Practising Law Institute

Clients

Her clients include:

Scancom plc

Vodafone

Samsung SA

Cargill International

Ericson AB Ghana Branch

Expresspay Ghana

IT Consortium, Hubtel Limited

ATC Ghana ServiceCo Limited

Work Highlights

Assisted a client with the review and negotiation of the term sheet, facility agreement and security agreement for a syndicated GHS 510 million loan facility.

Assisted a client with the review and negotiation of the term sheets, the facility and security agreements, and the share subscription and shareholders’ agreements for its financing of and investment in a fibre infrastructure services company.

Assisted a software company with reviewing/redrafting and negotiating the terms of a software agreement with the Ghana Cocoa Board for the development of an integrated cocoa management software for, among others, registering cocoa farmers and a platform for cocoa beans and cocoa inputs.

Assisted 3 fintech companies with the preparation and negotiation of a payment platform services agreement for the collection of government revenue.

Assisted a client with the negotiation of the contract with the Electoral Commission of Ghana for the biometric voter registration and management system.

Assisted the transaction advisor for the design-build-finance-operate and maintenance of the biometric passport system in Ghana with the review/redraft and negotiation of a public private partnership contract.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Ghana

New York State

Languages Spoken

English