Robert Nii Arday Clegg is the Managing Partner at the eponymous corporate law firm of Nii Arday Clegg & Co. He advises companies on a wide range of corporate, commercial and transactional matters and is also a corporate law and governance trainer.

He regularly speaks at corporate governance events at the invitation of boards and management teams in several industries including financial services and oil and gas. He delivers informal teaching sessions to law schools and professional bodies and is frequently called upon to share his corporate governance insights on radio and television.

His articles have been published on the Comparative Corporate Governance Concentration Forum at Harvard Law School, in national newspapers as well as online.

He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) with 2 Honors in Corporate Law, Finance & Governance Concentration from Harvard Law School with cross-registration in Boards of Directors & Corporate Governance at Harvard Business School.

He also holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) with First Class Honours from the University of Ghana, Legon where he was admitted to the Vice-Chancellor’s Honours List for outstanding academic performance. He was adjudged the Best Graduating Student in Law at the same university and was awarded the Bentsi-Enchill Prize in recognition of this academic achievement.

On the occasion of his call to the Ghana Bar, he won the S.Y. Bimpong-Buta Prize for being the best student in the interpretation of deeds and statutes, the Alhajj Dramani Yakubu Prize for being the best male student in the interpretation of deeds and statutes, the Prof. Akua Kuenyehia Prize for being the best student in industrial law and the S.K. Kodjovie Memorial Prize for being the best student in the law of taxation.

On the media front, he was adjudged the Television Current Affairs Talk Show Host of the Year at the 2012 RTP Awards.

Robert is married to Mabel with whom he has 3 sons: David, Samuel and Robert Junior.

  • 10 Strategies For Making Top Grades at the University

    Robert Nii Arday Clegg took his ‘O’ and ‘A’ Levels at Achimota School where he won the Ayi Kwei Armah Prize for Prose in Literature-in-English in Upper Six.

    During his undergraduate studies in Political Science in Philosophy, he was admitted to the Vice Chancellor’s Honour List for making a Grade Point Average of 3.96/4.0 in a semester with 6 A’s and 1 A-. He graduated with First Class Honours. At the end of his post-first degree Bachelor of Law (LLB) degree, he was adjudged the Best Graduating Student in Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana and received the Bentsi-Enchill Prize.

    On the occasion of his call to the Ghana Bar, he received the S.Y. Bimpong-Buta Prize for being the Best Student in the Interpretation of Deeds and Statues, Prof. Akua Kuenyehia Prize for being the Best Student in Industrial Law, the S.K. Kodjovie Memorial Prize for being the Best Student in the Law of Taxation and the Alhaji Dramani Yakubu prize for being the Best Male Student in the Interpretation of Deeds and Statutes.

    The author has distilled all the nuggets that helped him on this journey of achievement into this handy book!

  • My Media Journey

    This book is the autobiographical account of a young Ghanaian man’s unplanned entry into his country’s vibrant broadcasting industry at the turn of the century, and his largely triumphant yet occasionally tumultuous journey through it.

    Although his father, Sam Clegg, had been a fixture of journalism as a formidable national newspaper editor for nearly a decade, from 1983 to 1992, Robert Nii Arday Clegg wasn’t drawn instinctively to the media. Young Clegg appeared to have fallen some distance away from the old tree that fruited him. It took a fair bit of coaxing and cajoling to bring him round to broadcasting, initially as a university campus studio cub, transitioning subsequently into the major leagues of radio talk show hosts in Ghana. The obstruction all along, he reveals, was his first love – no, not Mimi his beloved girlfriend who he was to marry later, but the Law profession.

    My Media Journey is candid, completely unencumbered by flattery or camouflage. Clegg doesn’t dress b.s. up in make-up and polite synonyms. Excuse the Trumpian expression, but spades aren’t tremendous cutlery. What he sees as corporate shenanigans and acts of meanness are laid out unlaundered in the public square for readers, but so are acts of kindness and brotherly charity warmly and generously recounted.

    From chapter to chapter, Clegg’s character emerges of a focused, self-confident and fiercely stubborn young man with an unwavering sense of political independence. He demonstrates this in his on-air and editorial encounters at Radio Gold and Starr FM, both broadcast stations based in the capital, Accra, and which have politician owners. His values-based approach to broadcasting is evident when on multiple occasions he rejects, with ease, offers of under-the-table monetary rewards from newsmakers for work done in the regular line of duty, as well as from unnamed government officials. The title of this book notwithstanding, Clegg throws in his love of sports and regales us with his own prodigious exploits at hockey and the sprints, and how that passion helps to open the doors to his media journey.

    Also, he makes no pretence of his pride in his academic achievements borne out of intelligence, hard work and self-belief which, consequently, put him top of his law faculty class and reward him with a long-held dream — a place at Harvard Law School.

    As Shimon Peres put it in his foreword to Start-Up Nation – the Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, this book should be taken as an “interim report” on the evolving life and career of Clegg. It is but a small chapter in a much fuller story that is still writing itself.

    — FOREWORD BY KWAKU SAKYI-ADDO

    My Media Journey

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  • Corporate Governance: The Boardroom, The Bottom Line & Beyond (Hardcover)

    Foreword by Sam Esson Jonah KBE, OSG

    “This book…provides key explanations …to enlighten practising directors and corporate lawyers on modern and international trends in their…work. I personally admire how the author skillfully and seamlessly combines three broad subject areas: law, finance and history to make a strong case for modern corporate lawyers to be specialists in finance; for boards of directors to be knowledgeable in finance and law; and for students to be futuristic in their career planning…[T]his publication has all the necessary ingredients to support the central bank’s agenda to strengthen corporate governance structures and practices across all segments of the banking industry in Ghana.” — Dr. Ernest Addison, Governor of the Bank of Ghana; in-coming 2020 Chair of the Board of Governors of the Bretton Woods Institutions

    “A superb, masterful and much-needed contribution to a critically important subject. Robert Nii Arday Clegg’s meticulously researched and expertly delivered work is groundbreaking in the Ghanaian context. It is a must-read for any professional who is serious about truly understanding the nuances inherent in the concept of corporate governance and the principal elements of a director’s fiduciary duties. Corporate Governance: The Boardroom, The Bottom Line & Beyond could not have been written at a more propitious time. It inspires an enlightened perspective that will produce corporate governance cognoscenti in the classrooms and boardrooms of Ghana for a very long time.” — Kwabena Osei-Boateng, Chairman, IC Asset Managers (Ghana) Limited; Member, Oxford University Alumni Board

    “An absolute masterpiece…well-researched and provides deep insights into an area where many who believe they understand barely scratch the surface. Corporate governance is particularly relevant in many facets of developing economies like ours and I daresay this book will educate many beyond the borders of this country. I have read many books on the subject and this ranks right up there with the best of them. Much as I expected a great job, I must say that Clegg managed to exceed that expectation. Well done for providing living water to our thirsty land.” — Antoinette Kwofie, Executive Director, Finance, Barclays Bank Ghana (Part of the Absa Family)

    “This book will give its readers a strong intellectual basis to appreciate the concepts currently shaping corporate governance practices. It is a brilliant toolkit on how to become an effective supervisor. A required reading for a person making rules on corporate policy, currently operating in a boardroom or aspiring to operate from one soon.” —  Winston Nelson Jr., Member, Governing Council, Ghana Fixed Income Market; Former Director, Ghana Stock Exchange

    “A very powerful and thought-provoking read on one of the biggest topics of our time. Corporate governance shapes our society to a greater extent than many of us might think and Clegg does an excellent job of introducing the topic with its attendant objectives and underpinning philosophies.” — Fridrik Arsælsson, Partner, Rettur-Adalsteinsson & Partners; Alternate Board Member, Financial Supervisory Authority of Iceland; Adjunct Professor, The Faculty of Law, University of Iceland

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