Audrey Naa Dei Kotey is a senior attorney at AudreyGrey. Her areas of focus are corporate and commercial law, financial markets law, corporate restructuring and insolvency, banking & finance and taxation. Naa’s experience includes advising on a wide range of transactions relating to capital markets, acquisitions, finance raising, regulatory compliance, property and tax structuring, related tax matters such as amnesty, appeals etc and undertaking negotiations with the Authorities. She has recently advised on assessments issued by the Revenue Authorities to high net worth individuals. Naa has also advised on the implementation of an employee compensation scheme for a regional project management company and the structuring of an investment vehicle involving complex tax and accounting issues for an international consortium of contractors. She has also assisted in conducting buyer due diligence for large international corporate institutions and on effective structuring of companies entering into the Ghanaian economy.
Prior to joining the firm, Naa Dei worked at N Dowuona & Co, a corporate and commercial law firm in Ghana where she worked on several large financial market transactions, dealt with tax matters on behalf of clients particularly related to international structuring, listed security transactions, transfer pricing and tax implications of corporate decisions. She has also worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers (Gh) Ltd as a transactions advisor, a role that equipped her with strong financial and analytical skills. She worked on several complex liquidations, insolvency and restructuring assignments as well as corporate finance transactions. Notable among them are the liquidations of Ghana Airways Ltd and Plant Pool Ltd as well as several due diligence assignments involving large public bodies such as Merchant Bank Ghana and the Volta River Authority (VRA).
Naa is a licensed Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana. She holds a Professional Baccalaureate in Law (BL) from the Ghana School of Law; a Bachelors in Law (LLB) from the University of Ghana Faculty of Law; and a BA in Psychology and Economics, from the University of Ghana (Legon). Naa is an experienced Chartered Accountant and a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) UK and the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana (ICAG). She is also a member of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) and undergoing a charter from the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIT).
