Practice 03
Banking and finance litigation
Our banking and finance dispute practice has achieved significant victories for clients in complex banking litigation, recovery actions, and the defence of regulatory enforcement by institutions such as the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Right to Information Commission.
Representative matters
A selection of matters the chambers has handled. Client details are confidential.
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Represented a fund manager in proceedings before the Administrative Hearing Committee of the Securities and Exchange Commission for the reinstitution of its brokerage licence.
- 02
Represented a financial exchange in its defence against regulatory sanction and penalty proceedings before the Administrative Hearing Committee of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- 03
Represented a private commercial bank in its defence against claims for conversion and fraudulent breach of trust relating to the tender of treasury bonds under the Government of Ghana's Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP).
- 04
Represented a private commercial bank in its defence against claims by a third party for compensatory damages alleging breach of a banker's duty to third parties related to the issue of fraudulent cheques.
- 05
Represented a private bank in the prosecution of its claims for the payment of a million-dollar settlement in the enforcement of an insurance performance bond, under a bridge-finance transaction for the construction of a water treatment facility in northern Ghana.
- 06
Represented a publicly listed bank in its defence against a wrongful million-dollar claim on a bond guarantee issued by the bank for the provision of telecommunications services in eastern Ghana.
- 07
Represented the Managing Director of a publicly listed bank in contempt proceedings relating to the enforcement of garnishment proceedings against a customer's account.
- 08
Represented a private commercial bank in its defence against claims for compensation by a customer alleging cheque cloning and an insider fraud scheme.
- 09
Represented a publicly listed bank in the prosecution of its action in the High Court to overturn the directive of the Right to Information Commission to disclose confidential information under the Right to Information Act.
The lawyers
The chambers handles this work.

Paa Kwame Larbi Asare
Head of Chambers
Paa is the Head of Chambers at Techné Chambers. He is a Harvard-trained lawyer with several years' experience advising and representing clients in corporate and commercial law, business litigation, and white-collar criminal defence.

Joyce A. S. Awuah-Sarpong
Associate Counsel
Joyce is an Associate Counsel at Techné Chambers. She has assisted in advising and representing clients in corporate and commercial law, real estate transactions, civil litigation, and family law.

Maame Serwaa Tuffour
Associate Counsel
Maame is an Associate Counsel at Techné Chambers. She has assisted in advising the chambers' clients on online platform law, content moderation, employment redundancy matters, and real estate transactions.
Instruct the chambers
Tell us what is at stake.
Write to the chambers with the parties involved, what has happened, and what you want to achieve.
