Cross-border transactions and project financing documentation require documents that carry legal authority in more
than one jurisdiction. Notarisation, apostille, and certified translation are not administrative steps. They are conditions
on which closings depend.
Barry & Asmah provides notarial services and certified translation for documents required in cross-
border transactions, project financings, and regulatory processes. Our notarial practice covers the
authentication of signatures and corporate authority, the certification of documents for use in foreign
jurisdictions, powers of attorney, affidavits, statutory declarations, and the notarisation of documents
required as conditions precedent in project financings and commercial transactions.

Our certified translation practice covers the translation of legal and regulatory documents between
English and French, certified by the firm. We translate documents that have legal effect — corporate
resolutions, regulatory approvals, land title documents, financing agreements, contracts, and
correspondence with regulatory authorities — and we certify them as lawyers who understand the
legal meaning of what is being translated, not as translators who understand the language alone.
For clients whose transactions involve both Ghanaian and Francophone West African elements, the
combination of notarial and certified translation capability in one firm removes a coordination step
that routinely creates delay at the point in a transaction when delay is most costly. We provide this
capability as part of the transaction, not as a referral to a separate service provider.