Nadia Armah
Senior Associate
Sectors
Gaming and betting
Fintech
Cryptocurrency
Blockchain technology
Banking & Finance
Recognition
Ranked in Legal 500 for Gaming & Betting
Ranked in Legal 500 for Commercial Litigation mid-market
Nadia qualified as a Solicitor in the UK in 2022 having qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor in Ghana in 2017. She has worked with a corporate law firm in Ghana and also functioned as a legal clerk for His Lordship, Justice Julius Ansah, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana.
At Costigan King, Nadia assists with Corporate and Commercial matters and has acted for clients in a broad range of practice areas, including banking and finance, gaming and betting, construction and energy, financial services, fraud, group litigation, insolvency, insurance, intellectual property, and regulatory investigations. She also assists with commercial litigation and other contentious matters.
Nadia graduated with a distinction in a Masters in Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science in December 2019. Her specialism is in Corporate and Securities Law with a focus in International Commercial Arbitration, Corporate Finance and Financial Regulation. She obtained her LLB from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana.
Nadia is praised by clients for her tenacity, determination, and thorough understanding of complex and varied corporate and commercial matters.
Expertise
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Nadia assists with commercial litigation and dispute resolution for both domestic and international clients in respect of a wide array of complex, high-value disputes in multiple jurisdictions across a broad range of practice areas, including: banking and finance; corporate (including shareholder disputes); commercial; construction and energy; intellectual property; professional negligence and regulation and compliance.
She is recognised in Legal500 and praised by clients for her tenacity, determination, and thorough understanding of complex and varied litigation matters.
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Nadia assists in commercial law both nationally and internationally and in a wide array of aspects including mergers & acquisitions, financing (debt and equity), secured lending, re-structuring, domestic and cross-border commercial agreements, intellectual property, domestic and cross-border acquisitions and matters of regulation and compliance (including in respect of the FCA, DFSA, the Gambling Commission and the SEC).
Nadia is familiar with transacting with private and listed companies on various global markets and the associated procedural and regulatory requirements. She also also assisted on deals spanning Europe (including Cyprus, Curacao, Malta, Gibraltar and the Isle of Man), North America, Canada, the Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
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Nadia has assisted in respect of a wide array of Fintech & Blockchain matters, including corporate and commercial agreements, agreements to protect intellectual property and with matters of regulation and compliance (both domestically and internationally). Recent matters she has advised on include:
drafting consultancy agreements for the consultant developers of a blockchain start-up to ensure the company’s IP rights are protected;
reviewing and preparing non-disclosure agreements for use in commercial discussions between technology companies to protect their respective IP rights;
preparing loan instruments for investors into a blockchain music platform company; and
preparing a share purchase agreement for a private investor in a blockchain smartphone company in advance of it being listed on a decentralized finance exchange.
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Nadia assists in respect of commercial, corporate, regulatory, intellectual property and data protection matters in the gambling sector. She has also overseen several contentious matters in the gaming sector, relating to non-payment under multiple intellectual property agreements for use of an online gaming platform and claims brought by customers of operators.
Recent matters include assisting:
with corporate, commercial, regulatory and intellectual property advice to address all of a leading UK bookmaker’s business needs;
with various payment disputes for the operator of an online gaming platform;
in advising Les Ambassadeurs in respect of a dispute involving a former member of the club;
in advising in respect of a dispute concerning the lending of money to a fellow professional gambler;
in defending an online gaming platform in respect of a claim brought against it by a customer for an alleged software malfunction which the customer said led to the loss of two bets;
in advising an offshore online bookmaker to protect its regulatory interests and in respect of global commercial contracts;
with various matters for a UK bookmaker including licensing rights to IP in a gambling platform, corporate advice and matters of compliance in the UK and globally;
in advising a professional gambler in respect of allegations of operating an illegal, unlicensed gambling ring; and
in advising and acting for shareholders in respect of the sale of their shares in to another bookmaker.