Cross-border disputes are ever more significant in international business. International arbitration has increasingly become the preferred method of resolving such disputes, offering the benefits of greater flexibility, confidentiality and crucially, prospects for enforcement, than national court based litigation.
Our lawyers in Ghana have experience in conducting international arbitration under some of the major institutional and procedural rules, including those of the UNCITRAL and ITLOS.
Experience has included advising:
- The Government of Ghana in international arbitration proceedings brought against it by Balkan Energy Ghana Limited in respect of an agreement involving the rehabilitation of and supply of power from a barge. This matter generated a landmark case dealing with the question of parliamentary approval for international business transactions involving the Government.
- The Government of Ghana in international arbitration proceedings brought by it against Côte d’Ivoire pursuant to Part XV of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea before the Special Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), in accordance with Article 15(2) of the Statute of the Tribunal.
- The Government of Ghana in arbitration proceedings brought against it for, amongst other things, tolling fees under a power purchase agreement.
- Vulcan Natural Resources Limited in arbitration proceedings instituted on its behalf against a Ghanaian incorporated construction company for the payment of amounts owed the company under a contract between the parties.