Corporate Business Law

Our Corporate Law legal services include start-ups, small and medium-sized businesses, as well as to regulated service providers like engineers, physicians, dentists, lenders, architects and others.

The business and corporate department at Melon and Co  provides strategic legal counseling on all domestic, regional and international business matters. Our attorneys align themselves with clients to truly understand their business needs in order to develop effective solutions and safeguards as they grow their businesses.

We have been frequently providing assistance to established international corporations seeking to expand their operations to Ghana in ways such as forming new business entities (i.e. partnerships, corporations and limited liability companies); negotiating and preparing business contracts, agreements and leases; establishing regulatory compliance plans; handling licensure and permitting matters; as well as resolving disputes through arbitration, mediation and/or litigation.

Our business and corporate law practice group provides clients with legal services including but not limited to:

Establishing corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships and other business arrangements

• Establishing branches or subsidiaries and drafting intercompany agreements
• Shareholder and limited partnership agreements
• Public company compliance
• Regulatory compliance
  
• Licensure and permitting
• Buy/Sell agreements
• Stock redemption agreements
• Commercial contracts
• Compensation issues including deferred compensation
• Corporate financing
• Commercial leases
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Joint ventures and strategic alliances
• Financing agreements
• Labor, employment and immigration matters
• Review, negotiation and drafting of international agreements pursuant to the Convention         for the International Sales of Goods (CISG)
• Compliance with Ghana securities and trade laws
  
  

Also at Melon and Co, we provide relevant support to business start ups by way of pre-formation planning, business plan review, tax planning, choice of entity analysis, intellectual property protection, entity formation, creation of a capital structure, equipment financing and leasing, raising capital, securities compliance, executive compensation structuring, buy-sell agreements and shareholder agreements and service and purchase contracts.