Mr. Felix Nana Osei, LL.M
Senior Associate, BeaconLaw Consult; Member, Ghana Bar Association
LL.M. International Commercial Law (University of Salford, UK); LL.B. (Hons.) (KNUST); Member, Ghana Bar Association
- DRAKA.PC
- Legal & Digital Governance Advisor
Biography
Mr. Felix Nana Osei is a Ghanaian legal practitioner with more than a decade of active legal practice and experience in commercial and legal advisory matters.
He currently serves as a Senior Associate at BeaconLaw Consult, a boutique law firm in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, and is a recognised member of the Ghana Bar Association.
He holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B. Hons.) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Commercial Law from the University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom.
At DRAKA Labs, Mr. Osei contributes legal and commercial-law expertise to the governance of research, technology development, institutional collaboration and the translation of innovation into practical digital solutions.
His role provides an important bridge between technology innovation and the legal frameworks within which technology must be developed, contracted, deployed, licensed, transferred and governed.
Within DRAKA.PC, he supports the legal and digital-governance dimensions of the University's enterprise transformation, helping ensure that technology arrangements, commercial relationships and digital initiatives are appropriately considered from a legal and contractual perspective.
Research interests
- Technology Law
- Commercial Agreements
- Digital Governance
- Intellectual Property
- Technology Commercialisation
- Legal Issues in Emerging Technology
Applied domains
- Software-development agreements
- Technology-service agreements
- Software licensing
- Cloud-service arrangements
- Systems-integration agreements
- Research collaboration agreements
- Confidentiality arrangements
- Technology transfer and commercialisation
- Vendor and consultant agreements
- Open-source governance
Professional expertise
- Commercial Law
- International Commercial Law
- Technology Agreements
- Contractual Risk
- Digital Governance
- Intellectual Property
- Technology Commercialisation
- Research Collaboration Agreements
- Open-Source Governance
- Legal Issues in Emerging Technology
DRAKA Labs responsibilities
- 01Provide specialist legal expertise supporting DRAKA Labs research, innovation, technology development and external collaboration
- 02Advise on commercial and technology agreements, licensing, confidentiality and research-collaboration arrangements
- 03Support identification and management of contractual risk across scope, deliverables, acceptance, liability, change control and exit
- 04Support appropriate legal consideration of intellectual property, ownership, protection, licensing and commercialisation
- 05Contribute legal and digital-governance input to DRAKA.PC technology contracting, vendor agreements and open-source governance
- 06Integrate legal-by-design review early in the architecture, design and deployment lifecycle, complementing authorised University legal and governance structures
Programme / project responsibility
DRAKA.PC · Legal & Digital Governance Advisor
Provides specialist legal and commercial-law input into the contractual and digital-governance dimensions of the programme, complementing (not replacing) the University's authorised legal, procurement, finance and governance structures.
Professional memberships
- Ghana Bar Association