I try to put myself in the position of my clients – to see a situation through their eyes, to really understand the risks they face and the legal and business objectives they have. When clients hire me, they know they’re going to get someone who really cares about them and the situation they face.

BACKGROUND & OVERVIEW

Robert Kwesi Mills is a senior attorney at RobertGate . His areas of focus are corporate and commercial law, financial markets law, corporate restructuring and insolvency, banking & finance and taxation. Robert’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. He has recently advised on assessments issued by the Revenue Authorities to high net worth individuals. Rob 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. He 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, Robert worked at N Dowuona & Co, a corporate and commercial law firm in Ghana where he 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. He has also worked with Pricewater houseCoopers (Gh) Ltd as a transactions advisor, a role that equipped him with strong financial and analytical skills. He 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).

Robert is a licensed Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana. He 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). Rob 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). He is also a member of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) and undergoing a charter from the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIT).