MaameYaa Kwafo-Akoto
UK Guide 2025
Band 1 : Investment Funds: Investor Representation
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About
Provided by MaameYaa Kwafo-Akoto
Practice Areas
MaameYaa is a partner in the Funds & Asset Management practice. She has over 15 years of experience advising sovereign wealth funds, central banks, family offices, insurance companies, pension funds and development finance institutions around the world on their investment arrangements. On a daily basis, MaameYaa advises investors on asset management issues and strategic global and national issues.
Her work includes public investments and private fund investments (both cornerstone and smaller amounts), single investor mandates and co-investment arrangements covering all asset classes including infrastructure and energy, as well as a wide variety of other agreements and financial services regulatory issues. MaameYaa spent time on secondment to a government entity in Riyadh in 2017 and an Emirati government entity in 2021.
Chambers Review
UK
MaameYaa Kwafo-Akoto has market-leading experience advising institutional investors. She has particular expertise in advising Middle Eastern wealth funds, pension schemes and investment banks.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"MaameYaa is very knowledgeable, flexible, responsive, extremely professional and pleasant. She's so dedicated and delivers greatly on time."
"MaameYaa is a sharp professional who knows how to make her clients feel that their needs can always be met."
"MaameYaa has deep expertise and is very responsive."
"She is like the guru of funds; she knows the market like no one else does."
"She is excellent - she's very knowledgeable in this space, knows the laws and is straightforward in asking the questions that matter."
"MaameYaa is very knowledgeable, flexible, responsive, extremely professional and pleasant. She's so dedicated and delivers greatly on time."
"MaameYaa is a sharp professional who knows how to make her clients feel that their needs can always be met."
"MaameYaa has deep expertise and is very responsive."
"She is like the guru of funds; she knows the market like no one else does."
"She is excellent - she's very knowledgeable in this space, knows the laws and is straightforward in asking the questions that matter."
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