Merit

Merit

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Merit

Legal solutions, plainly argued

An Accra firm with a working command of Ghanaian law and a plain way of explaining it. You will leave the first meeting knowing what you are facing and what it costs.

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Firm of the Year

Ghana Legal Awards

Band 1, Commercial

Chambers & Partners Global

Member since 1998

Ghana Bar Association

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Legal advisors

Who we are

Merit is a partner-led Accra firm built for the matters that decide a business or a family — company formations and disputes, land and succession, employment and energy. Whatever brings you in, one partner owns the file from the first call to the last filing.

Loyal

We act for one side of a matter and say so plainly when we cannot act at all.

Trust

A written scope and a fee estimate before any work begins — and a call the moment either changes.

Founder

Selorm Merit Adzah

Founder & Senior Partner · Called to the Bar, 1998

Services

Our practice areas

Six practices, one bench. Whichever door you come in through, the partner who takes your call is the one who argues the matter.

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Qualified experts

Meet our lawyers

Called to the Ghana Bar and trained in London, Accra and Cape Town — and every one of them takes their own calls.

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Ama Serwaa Boateng, managing partner, in advocate's robes

Ama Serwaa Boateng

Managing Partner

a.boateng@merit.com

Kwabena Osei-Tutu, corporate partner, in advocate's robes

Kwabena Osei-Tutu

Partner · Corporate

k.oseitutu@merit.com

Efua Mensah, employment partner, in her chambers

Efua Mensah

Partner · Employment

e.mensah@merit.com

Success stories

Our case studies

Matters we are allowed to talk about, written the way we would explain them to you across the table.

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Suit to settlement in nine weeks

A supplier sued for the whole contract value. We narrowed the claim to the two disputed invoices and settled on terms the client could carry.

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Litigation

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A group restructured, clean

Four companies, three regulators and a shareholder who wanted out. We rebuilt the group as one holding structure without a single filing rejected.

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Corporate

Insights

Resources & articles

Plain-language notes on the questions clients actually ask us, written by the people who argue the matters.

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Articles

Why a will is the cheapest thing you will ever draft

Intestate succession in Ghana rarely lands where a family expects it to. A two-page will settles in weeks what a court settles in years.

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Featured

What you post while a matter is live

Social media is evidence. A short guide to what to say, what to delete and — most of the time — what to leave alone entirely.

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Succession planning for a family business

Who signs when the founder cannot? The three documents every owner-managed company should have before it is urgent.

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Get in touch

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Tell us what you are facing in a sentence or two. A partner reads every enquiry and replies within one working day — and the first conversation costs nothing.

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+233 30 274 1200 hello@merit.com
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