Our Team
LED BY SEASONED LEGAL PROFESSIONALS WITH DECADES OF COMBINED EXPERIENCE IN GHANAIAN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, OUR TEAM IS COMMITTED TO DELIVERING EXCELLENCE IN EVERY ENGAGEMENT.
Innocent Akwayena
Innocent is a resources, energy and mining law expert. He holds an LL.B Degree from the University of Ghana and an LL.M in Natural Resources Law (with specialization on Mineral Law, Policy and Economics) from the University of Dundee, Scotland. He served as the Principal Legal Counsel to the Ghana Minerals Commission, (1992-1998) and Legal Counsel/Secretary to the Energy Commission (1999-2000). He has been involved in key mining and energy sector transactions and regulatory reform programs in Ghana since 1994. He has also participated in the drafting of mining legislation for two Commonwealth countries as an intern at the Commonwealth Secretariat, London.
Prior to his LLM Studies at the University of Dundee, Innocent successfully completed an Advanced Professional Training Certificate Course for Mining Executives, with special tutoring in Privatization and Contract Negotiations in 1995. In 1998 he won a Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation (CFTC) Scholarship to receive professional internship training at the Economic and Legal Advisory Services Division (ELASD), at the Commonwealth Secretariat, London. As part of the training, he participated in the review and drafting of Mining Legislation for two Commonwealth countries under the Commonwealth Technical Assistance Programme. He has also participated in specialized local and international Professional Training Programmes on "Legal and Regulatory Issues in Power and Energy Sectors (International Law Institute Washington D.C, 2000), "West African Gas Pipe Line Project Negotiations, USAID, Lome, Togo 2000); Finance For Lawyers (Ghana Stock Exchange, 2001) and the First African School For International Financial Law", (Euromoney Legal Training/African Development Bank Accra, 2003).
In addition to his academic specialization in Natural Resources Law, Innocent has also gained invaluable practical working experience from the Mining and Energy Sectors for the past thirty (30) years. He was called to the Bar in Ghana in 1988. He has since then practiced law as a Judicial Research Assistant, Ghana Judicial Service, Accra; Associate of Bentsi-Enchill & Letsa, Legal Practitioners, Accra; Principal Legal Counsel Ghana Minerals Commission; and Legal Counsel/Secretary to the Ghana Energy Commission. He has also been actively involved in key Mining and Energy sector Legal and Regulatory Projects in Ghana since 1994 and has acted as Ghanaian counsel for several multinational companies in major international business transactions such as mergers and acquisitions and public offerings by US and Canadian Public companies with established resource development projects in Ghana. His areas of focus are Natural Resources Law, Energy Law, Mining Law, International Investment Law, Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Since 2006 he has been listed yearly by WHO is Who Legal in the International WHO'S WHO of Mining Lawyers and the WHO IS WHO of Business Lawyers as one of the global experts in mining law.
Emmanuel Sekor
Emmanuel is a legal, regulatory and policy expert with specialisation in natural resources and the environment. He has extensive experience in the Energy sector. He was a legal officer in the Ministry of Energy and a member of the Technical Group on West Africa Gas Pipeline Project. He has also worked with the Public Utility and Regulatory Commission, which has responsibility for electricity, water and aspects of natural gas regulation. He is a member of the Technical Committee of the Energy Commission and has been involved in the development of sector legislation. He has also consulted in various capacities for the Ministry of Energy, Energy Commission, oil and gas, electricity as well as mining companies.
Emmanuel holds an LLB degree from the University of Ghana and an LLM in Resources and Environmental Law and Policy from the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. In 1999, he obtained a Certificate in Legislative Drafting from RIPA International, London UK. He was called to the Ghana Bar in 1986.
Prior to joining REM Law in October 2009, he had worked in Ghana's energy sector for close to 20 years. He resigned from the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission, the economic regulatory body for electricity, water and natural gas, where he had served as legal advisor and regulatory policy expert since 1997.
From 1989 to 1997, Emmanuel was legal advisor at the Ministry of Energy which has oversight responsibility for Ghana's electricity and petroleum sectors. He was involved in negotiating financing agreements as well as EPC contracts in respect of various petroleum and electricity sector infrastructure projects. Key among these were downstream oil industry undertakings such as the Tema Lube Oil Blending Project and the Tema Oil Refinery Expansion Project; the Tema to Akosombo Oil Pipeline Project and the Bulk Oil Transportation and Storage Depots. Between 1992 and 1997, Emmanuel was a member of the International Technical Working Group which facilitated the establishment of the legal framework for the West African Gas Pipeline Project. He was also one time Secretary to the governing Boards of the Bulk Oil Transportation and Storage Company, the Accra (LPG)Cylinder Manufacturing Company as well as the then National Energy Board.
Emmanuel was involved in several electrification projects undertaken by the Ministry of Energy in the 1990s in the National Electrification Programme. His participation in the negotiation of loan and the related project agreements as well as monitoring of the electricity and the petroleum sector projects gave him invaluable project management experience.
Emmanuel has a firm grasp of legal policy and technical aspects of oil and gas, as well as the electricity sectors. He was a member of the legal drafting team which prepared the statutes establishing the Ghana Energy Commission and the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission in 1997.
He has also consulted for the Energy Commission in the development of subsidiary legislation under that Commission's rule making powers, including establishing Performance Standards and Rules of Practice for would-be natural gas operators and electricity utilities and has served on the Technical Committee of the Energy Commission.
His international experience includes his participation for several years in the West African Gas Pipeline Project, as well as the West African Regional Electricity Regulatory Project which culminated in the establishment of the Ghana based trans-national regulatory body for electricity in 2008.
With regard to the upstream petroleum sector, during his tenure at the Ministry of Energy, Emmanuel's functions included reviewing Petroleum Agreements for awarding upstream exploration licenses in the 1990s.
Since joining the firm in 2003 as a full-time consultant, Emmanuel Sekor has added to the firm a wealth of knowledge of Ghana's energy sector and several years of practical experience from participating in the structuring of small and large infrastructure projects, facilitation of investments framework through regulation, as well as a deep understanding of the workings of both the public and private sectors.
Enyonam Priscilla Dedey-Oke
Ms. Enyonam Dedey-Oke is an energy, resources and environmental law and research expert. Enyonam is a Senior Legal Consultant at REM Law Consultancy and has over 20+ years consulting experience. She has worked in the conventional energy sector, providing upstream and downstream assessments, transitioning to thermal and hydro. She is responsible for the external corporate counsel's services of the firm and has been involved in providing a wide range of advisory services to electricity generation (including renewables) and distribution companies as well as medium sized mining firms. In her role as external counsel, she has been engaged in several mining related transactions involving the raising of mining capital through public offerings, private placements and commercial loan transactions. In this regard, she has conducted legal due diligence on projects and transactions, advised clients on requisite regulatory licences and permits to be procured, drafted transaction documentation and perfected local transaction security documents.
Enyonam is usually responsible for monitoring implementation of Project Agreements and Investment Licences, advising on legal aspects of corporate finance, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions. She is responsible for the firm's Power Sales Agreements practice. In that role she has been active in negotiating and drafting Power Sales Agreements, Transmission Service Agreements and quality of service issues. She has also drafted EPC contracts and other ancillary services agreements in both the power and petroleum sectors. The power systems agreements are underpinned by research and due diligence opinions involving the assessment of the legal, institutional and regulatory framework of the energy sector.
Enyonam provided extensive best practice research support to and participated in the drafting and review and finalization of the Upstream Petroleum Sector Regulations Project as well as the Energy Efficient Standards and Labelling Legislative Instruments for the Energy Commission.
She also provides research and drafting support to the other departments in their work as well as participates in community and stakeholders' dialogue in respect of CSR, social issues and legislation development related engagement. She has working experience in the African market including Ghana and Nigeria.
Winifred Odoi-Quarshie
Winifred Odoi-Quarshie is a Private Legal Practitioner in litigation, a Certified Mediator and a Notary Public. On 5th October 2012, she qualified as a lawyer and enrolled on the Roll of Lawyers of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Ghana. In the second year of legal practice, it was evident to her that some cases did not necessitate exploring the full litigation voyage. As such, her legal practice is a blend of litigation and settlement of cases amidst drafting and advisory.
As a general practitioner, Winifred litigates in land cases, labour cases, debt recovery, family law, probate & administration, estate litigation, insurance, contract cases and mining disputes. She also drafts agreements and renders legal opinions among others.
Winifred holds a B.A. (Hons) Degree in Theatre Arts (with English) (2001), a Post First Degree in Law (LL. B) (2009) both from the University of Ghana, Legon. As part of her continuing legal education, she has pursued courses in Human Rights Law at the Centre for Human Rights Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa in 2017, 2018 and 2019 and Governance at Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Global Governance Centre, European University Institute, San Domenic di Fiesole, Florence Italy (2018).
Ewoenam Adzoa Nkansa
Ewoenam Adzoa Nkansa is a lawyer with training in public-sector legal practice and experience in contract review and regulatory compliance in institutional settings. Her background includes government legal service, where she was trained in legal drafting, statutory interpretation, and compliance focused advisory work, as well as private legal practice with exposure in the resources, energy, and mining sectors.
She was called to the Bar in October 2024 and completed her pupillage in May 2025 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, where she supported contract-related review, regulatory compliance processes, and cross-border legal coordination involving international organisations, foreign States, and relevant Ghanaian state institutions.
Ewoenam brings a disciplined, detail-oriented approach to legal drafting and advisory support, shaped by experience in both government and private legal practice.
Supporting Staff
Stella Kedzi
Stella Kedzi is a bilingual secretary with BA in French and Business Communication at the Ghana Institute of Languages and a Bilingual Higher Diploma in Office Management at Alliance Francaise, Accra.
I am currently engaged in Secretarial and Office Management duties at the Law Firm from 2016 – up to date.
