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Position: Partner, Energy & Infrastructure
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Ghana
Practice Areas:
Project development
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
English
Biography

Seyram is a Partner with our Energy and Infrastructure Department. She has extensive experience in corporate and commercial transactions. Her practice focuses on energy and natural resources. She has played a leading role in acting for and advising a range of organisations, from multinational corporations to indigenous small-to-medium enterprises in the power, oil, gas and mining sectors.

Her clients include Kosmos, Tullow Ghana Limited, Anadarko, AngloGold Ashanti Limited, Newmont Ghana Gold Limited, Vitol, Aker Energy and Kinross.

Recent transactional highlights
  • Lead counsel for Societe Multinational De Bitumes (SMB), an Ivorian oil and gas supplier, on the development of a bitumen plant for the production and storage of bitumen in Ghana in a joint venture with GOIL Plc.
  • Lead counsel for Shelf drilling, a leading contractor of jack-up rigs, on the decommissioning of the Saltpond Oilfield.
  • Lead counsel for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) on behalf of the Ministry of Energy, on the development of a natural gas distribution network in the Tema municipal area and selection of a concessionaire for the development and operation of the distribution network.
  • Lead counsel for Tullow Ghana Limited on the award of an EPCI contract to a TechnipFMC-led syndicate of subcontractors in connection with the development of the Jubilee South East project, an extension to the Jubilee field offshore Ghana.
Practice areas
  • Project development
  • Project finance
  • Asset finance
Sector specialisations
  • Energy
  • Mining
  • Natural resources
  • Oil and gas
Bar admissions
  • Ghana Bar
Association memberships
  • Ghana Bar 
Academic qualifications
  • LLM in Petroleum Law and Policy, University of Dundee, 2017
  • Qualifying Certificate in Law (QCL), Ghana School of Law, 2010
  • LLB, University of Ghana, Legon, 2008
  • BA (Hons) Psychology with Political Science, University of Ghana, Legon, 2005
Address:
Accra
Tel:+233 302 208888 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.bentsienchill.com