Jennifred Maurice Adjei is an academic and private legal practitioner with several years of experience in providing expert legal services across a broad spectrum of his specialized areas in criminal law, land law, corporate law and financial market regulation law. In his legal practice, he works as lawyer at Prestige and Standford Law, a private law firm in Accra and is responsible for the conduct of contentious civil suits. Jennifred has also been involved in the conduct of several high-profile criminal cases. Prior to moving to Prestige and Standford Law, he worked with Obour, Minta and Co, a private law firm in Accra. As Counsel, he has also represented several individuals, groups, associations and corporate clients in various sectors in corporate and commercial litigation. He has advised corporate and individual clients on business compliance, risk management and regulatory reforms which has placed him at the front of legal and business advisory services in the financial landscape in Ghana.
Jennifred has over twelve (12) years working experience managing pension funds in the Pension industry, working in different pension firms and occupying various positions and has closely worked with key industry stakeholders such as the National Pensions Regulatory Authority, Pension Fund Management firms, Pension Fund Custodians and the Securities and Exchange Commission. He has been a member of Board of Trustees of various Pension Schemes and is currently a member of the Board of Trustee of MDOZ Investment and Retirement Club (MIRC) Group Personal Pension Scheme. He has also been a Board Member of Cititrust Capital Ghana PLC, a member of Cititrust Group Holdings, a leading pan-African financial and investment conglomerate with its headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria. He was a Licensed Fund Manager’s Representative for CitiTrust Capital Ltd, a firm duly licensed by the Securities and exchange Commission of Ghana. He also has several years of external audit experience and has audited different companies mostly within the financial sector.
Jennifred has keen interest in quantitative and qualitative research and possesses good communication and leadership skills. Over the years, he has demonstrated strong commitment to legal and corporate excellence and ethical practice. Jennifred’s extensive experience and interdisciplinary expertise in other non-legal areas such as economics, sociology, accounting, corporate governance, development management and finance has made him a valuable asset not only to students he has taught over the years, but also to institutional and private clients.
Aside being a Barrister and Solicitor at Law of the Supreme Court of Ghana, he is also a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana. He also has credentials as Economic Policy Analyst, Financial Securities Trading and Investment Management Analyst, and Pensions Analyst. Jennifred also holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Development Studies from the prestigious University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He currently teaches Land Law, Criminal Law, Philosophical Foundations of Law, Critical thinking and Legal research at the Faculty of Law. He also teaches undergraduate courses such as Law and Society, Family Violence, Legal Issues Related to Conflict Management and Deviance and Social Problems at the College of Distance Education, University of Cape Coast in the Department of Sociology.
