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Marian Ekua Hayfron-Benjamin
Specializations: Project Finance, Banking, Mining, Corporate and Commercial
“Extensive experience in project finance transactions, banking, power and natural resources law.”
Professional Experience
Ekua has participated in numerous projects involving equity and loan investment transactions in, inter alia, the banking, energy and mining sectors. She regularly supervises the conduct of legal due diligence exercises and the preparation of due diligence reports. She has extensive experience in project finance transactions, banking, power and natural resources law providing legal support to a number of banks, mining companies and other entities in their operations and transactions.
She has provided advice to major consumers of power in relation to their power purchase and transmission agreements. She has acted for the acquirer in a number of acquisition transactions including Old Mutual's acquisition of Provident Life Insurance and Republic Bank's acquisition of a majority shareholding in HFC Bank (Ghana) Limited as well as the initial public offer of Cal Bank's shares on the Ghana Stock Exchange and its rights issues.
Her work has taken her into a variety of areas including the area of sports law (when she advised Gold Fields Ghana Limited in their USD6,000,000 sponsorship of the Ghanaian national football team, the Black Stars) and in real estate law.
Professional Affiliations and Recognition
- Member of the Ghana Bar Association
- Member of the International Bar Association
- Member of the Ghana Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Advisors
- Ranked in IFLR 1000 and Chambers and Partners
- Featured in IFLR 1000 Women Leaders
Leadership Roles
- Chair of the Board of Directors of Constant Capital (Ghana) Limited, one of Ghana's leading broker-dealers
- Member of the Board of Universal Merchant Bank
Credentials
- Called to the Ghana Bar, 1992
- Called to the Trinidad and Tobago Bar, 1986
- L.L.B (Lond), 1984
- 37 years in legal practice