TESTIMONIALS

“Dealing with Egality Law was refreshingly straightforward. With minimal back and forth we received a quote, the work was delivered exactly as expected and the follow-up has been high quality. The whole process was transparent, efficient and remarkably friendly. For once it felt my lawyer was there to support me.”

CEO, Footprints Africa

“Having worked with Korieh for nearly four years I have always been impressed by the quality of his advice. He is incredibly client focused and always highly responsive. Korieh immediately establishes what we want and need, he explains potential problems to us fully and then sets about helping us achieve our aims. I am consistently very happy with the service he has provided to us and would absolutely recommended his services.”

Senior Legal Advisor, Transparency International UK

“Our relationship with Egality Law is one of mutual trust and proactive engagement. Regardless of the topic or the hour, I know that we are in the best and safest of hands.”

CEO, Challenges Worldwide Ghana

“Korieh Duodu is the perfect external counsel. Hugely experienced and knowledgeable, responsive and supportive. He makes himself available, gives business conscious advice and is a real pleasure to work with.”

Head of Legal, Global Witness

Egality Law

Egality Law was set up with simple objectives in mind: to use creativity, innovation and commercial sense to meet our clients’ objectives, and do so with a keen focus on high quality service delivery.

We aim to gain an understanding of our clients' precise needs, and to help to meet them. Where there are challenges, our aim is to provide clear advice to enable our clients to negotiate those challenges effectively.

Our founding principles are guided by many years of working with leading UK and international law firms, as well as in-house with multinational institutions. We aim to act with integrity, speed, and an eye for detail, to deliver effective legal advice for our clients.

Korieh Duodu

Korieh Duodu has a wealth of experience in legal practice and in industry, both as a lawyer at the English and Ghanaian bars, and with the range of multinational clients he has worked with as retained counsel.

Korieh studied in England, at the University of London, before qualifying in 1999 as a barrister. He practiced with a number of top English and international firms until 2014, when he broadened his practice to serve both UK and West African clients, and requalified at the Ghanaian bar.

Phone: +233 235 402 001 or +44 7976 402 001
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PRACTICE AREAS

Dispute Resolution

Corporate and Commercial

Cross-border Issues

Media and Human Rights

Dispute Resolution

Disputes can often be severely debilitating for businesses and individuals alike. Our aim is to keep our clients out of court, where possible. If we can find a pragmatic solution to a problem, or a focused and efficient way to resolve a dispute without our clients having to engage in years of litigation, we will explore it diligently and creatively. Where litigation is necessary, we will aim to pursue it in a focused and efficient way, using our many years of advocacy experience.

Corporate & Commercial

We are well-equipped to deal with all aspects of a business's commercial legal needs as well as regulatory and compliance requirements. We have advised businesses on their ownership structures, investment models and contracting. We have particular expertise in advising on governance issues, including enabling businesses to operate effectively while complying with international anti-bribery and other compliance obligations.

Where businesses are engaging in new market entry, we can provide due diligence, business registration and localisation assistance to mitigate the wide array of legal risks that may be associated with a new market.

Areas of expertise include:

Business commencement and registration
Contract drafting and negotiation
Regulatory advice
Intellectual property
Employment, including restructuring, redeployment and redundancy
Crisis management

Cross-border issues

We are adept at finding effective legal solutions for corporate entities and individuals with legal issues that cross involve more than one jurisdiction. We have extensive experience of enforcement of an arbitral awards or foreign judgments, as well as dealing with conflict of laws in the context of contract negotiations or investments. We are also familiar with issues concerning the protection or enforcement of intellectual property rights in multiple jurisdictions.

Media & Human Rights

We advise broadcasters, publishers and journalists as well as corporate entities and individuals on the full range of media law and freedom of expression related issues.

We have extensive experience in privacy, data protection and information law, and particularly on the right to information.

We take particular interest in advising on human rights and public interest issues, including exploring opportunities for public interest litigation.

Client Charter

Egality Law is committed to client service of the highest standards. We aim to provide the efficiency of service expected from a modern first rate law firm. This charter is based on a number of charters developed by Bar associations around the world. We welcome your feedback on how it might be improved, and whether we live up to it. Read more here

Pro Bono

We aim to undertake a significant number of pro bono projects annually, subject to our availability and resources for doing so. Please contact us (by emailing [email protected] if you would like us to consider acting on a matter on a pro bono basis.

Careers

Egality Law is currently seeking talented legal practitioners to join our team. Please contact us by emailing our Practice Manager ([email protected]) with enquiries.