About Us
Located in Accra Ghana, Bannerman-Quist Legal Consult and Notary provides excellent legal advice to domestic and international clients.
We leverage on our knowledge and experience to provide you with a robust and efficent service that ensures you set up business in Ghana in a timely and less costly manner and keeps your business on track.
Our Mission
To achieve optimum client satisfaction delivering the highest standards of services and skills including ADR techniques and private dispute resolution/arbitration yielding speedier and less costly outcomes.
OUR VISION
A model of excellence in the provision of legal and related services leveraging on time-tested experience, expertise and ADR techniques.
Our Core Values
Integrity, Honesty, Ingenuity, Meticulousness, Accountability, Trustworthiness, Efficiency, Respect for all.
Our Mission
To achieve optimum client satisfaction delivering the highest standards of services and skills including ADR techniques and private dispute resolution/arbitration yielding speedier and less costly outcomes.
OUR VISION
A model of excellence in the provision of legal and related services leveraging on time-tested experience, expertise and ADR techniques.
OUR CORE VALUES
Integrity, Honesty, Ingenuity, Meticulousness, Accountability, Trustworthiness, Efficiency, Respect for all.
Leadership
Ellen Bannerman-Quist FCIArb EMBA is the Managing Consultant of the firm. She is an international lawyer, called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1993 and subsequently to the Ghana Bar in October 1993.
She has a B. A. (Hons) in French, an LLB (Hons) from the University of Warwick with a Certificate in French law from the Université de Bordeaux. She also has an M. A. in International Affairs from the University of Ghana, Legon and an Executive Masters in Business Administration (EMBA) from GIMPA Business School. She also has a Diploma in International Maritime Arbitration from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIARB), U.K. and is also an alumni of the Harvard Law School (Executive Education) where she obtained a Certificate in Women’s leadership.
She has been key in the negotiation of many international agreements both as an attorney with the International Law Division of the Ministry of Justice and several energy contracts of the Volta River Authority. Fluent in French, she has also participated in negotiations with Ghana’s neighboring francophone countries for the supply of power to those countries, amongst others. She has a wealth of experience in international, commercial and energy matters and is internationally acclaimed for Alternative Dispute Resolution.
She recently retired as the Director of Legal Services of the Volta River Authority, where she worked for 18 years holding various managerial positions in the Legal Services Department including Board Secretary of the Authority and Manager for the Power Business Section until her appointment as Director in 2016. Prior to joining the Volta River Authority she had worked as a state attorney for 6 years advising Government on its legal and international obligations, working on international contract negotiations, international arbitrations and other forms of domestic alternative dispute resolution while also instructing external counsel in matters pending before foreign courts involving the State.
She is a member of the Ghana Bar Association, and also of several international organisations including the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple UK, the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) where she is listed as an arbitrator, the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and an advisory board member of the Institute of Energy Law (IEL), and the Institute of Transnational Arbitration (ITA). Both located in Texas, USA.
She has been featured in the Lawyer Monthly (2016) and the Finance Monthly (2016) and Legal International Legal 100 (2019) all published in the UK.