Afua Koranteng is a corporate lawyer with over 20 years' experience, with expertise in corporate law, capital markets, energy-power, infrastructure projects, mergers and acquisitions, telecom infrastructure, corporate governance and company secretarial services. She is a seasoned advocate with in-depth knowledge in navigating regulatory affairs in Ghana. She is a Co-founder and Managing Partner of Koranteng & Koranteng Legal Advisors a corporate/commercial law firm in Ghana. Since its inception, Koranteng & Koranteng Legal Advisors has been recognised by IFLR1000 and the Legal 500, both international guides to the world's leading law firms, for Infrastructure Development (Power), Capital Markets (Debt), Project Development (Power), Banking and Project Finance and Energy.
She has led the firm in advising the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Ghana on several of its sovereign bond issuances including the zero-rated $3 billion in 2021. She leads the firm's provision of advice to the Government of Ghana on its energy sector recovery programme, which involves engaging with numerous Independent Power Producers, both thermal and renewable energy. She has also led the firm in advising the Ministry of Finance on its restructuring of the Independent Power Producers debt from Government's agreement with the IMF.
Prior to co-founding Koranteng & Koranteng, she was a Partner at CQ Legal & Consulting, a leading corporate/commercial law firm in Ghana. She also served as Head of Legal and Company Secretary for ATC Ghana, a subsidiary of the NYSE listed American Tower Corporation for 7 years from 2010 to 2017. She was responsible for all commercial negotiations for the company in Ghana and was local in-house counsel for ATC's $420 million acquisition of MTN Ghana's tower infrastructure.
Afua has also previously worked with two of the leading law firms in Ghana, JLD & MB and Sey & Co where she advised on major international commercial transactions such as the listings of Golden Star Resources on the Ghana Stock Exchange, the successful merger of Total Oil Ghana and Mobil Oil Ghana Limited, Celtel B. V's successful acquisition of Western Tele Systems (Airtel) amongst others. She was part of the Lead Legal Advisors, who successfully renegotiated and implemented the $500million Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact with the Governments of Ghana and USA in 2006.
She was called to the Bar of England and Wales at the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn and subsequently to the Ghana Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor. She holds an LLB degree from the University of Kent at Canterbury in the United Kingdom, a Master of Laws LLM in International Economic Law from the University of Warwick in England with a thesis on "Stock Market Development in Africa: A Perspective from Ghana and South Africa" and a Post Graduate Diploma in International Trade Law and Corporate Law from the BPP Law School in London.
She is a member of the Ghana Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn. She is also a member of the institute of Directors, Ghana and a Notary Public.