Biography

Dennis Kwamina Amoah is a DPhil in Law candidate at the University of Oxford, with a research focus on global tax governance, international tax treaties, and tax competition. His academic work builds on over thirteen years of high-level legal advisory experience in international finance, energy, infrastructure, and cross-border taxation.

He is currently a Partner at Arete Solicitors, a boutique Ghanaian tax law firm, where he leads the finance and projects practice. Over the past thirteen years, Dennis has advised on transactions exceeding US$20 billion, supporting governments, multinationals, and financial institutions across Africa and Europe. 

Prior to founding Arete Solicitors, Dennis served as Managing Partner at Ogo & Malone and as Senior Associate at ENSafrica (Ghana), where he led landmark deals in the petroleum, infrastructure, and financial services sectors. He has played pivotal roles in Ghana’s Eurobond transactions, LNG financing, and landmark Ghanaian projects.

Dennis holds degrees from the University of Oxford (MSc in Taxation, Distinction), University College London (LLM, Distinction), Frankfurt School of Finance and Management (MBA Finance), and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (LLB). He was awarded the Faculty of Law Prize at Oxford for Best Student in Principles of International Taxation and guest lectures at the University of Ghana’s LLM in Taxation and LLM in Corporate Finance programmes.

 

Research Interests

His doctoral research at Oxford interrogates the structural inequalities embedded in the international tax regime, particularly how lower-income countries experience diminished fiscal sovereignty under treaty-based arrangements. He explores alternative frameworks for global tax justice, drawing from legal, political economy, and global development theories.