Naana is a trusted partner to companies and executives navigating sensitive and often high-profile government investigations and related litigation and provides seasoned counsel to clients on the proactive adoption and refinement of compliance measures to meet an ever-changing global regulatory environment.

She is a former US federal prosecutor and trial lawyer with almost 20 years of experience conducting a broad array of investigations all over the world. She heads the firm's Atlanta litigation group and serves on the firm's Policy Committee. Her experience spans a range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, automotive manufacturing, nuclear power construction, government contracting, professional sports, and private equity and includes successfully resolving actions before a range of regulatory bodies. Her experience includes successfully resolving matters under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the False Claims act and general fraud. Although Naana's practice is global in its reach, she has a particular focus on Africa. She leads the firm's US/Africa initiative and is the US representative to the DLA Piper Africa Board.

During her tenure as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago), she served as lead counsel on dozens of felony investigations and prosecutions, including various financial fraud schemes and transnational narcotics trafficking matters. She presented and obtained federal grand jury indictments, argued at numerous legal and evidentiary hearings, successfully tried several financial fraud jury and bench trials to verdict and briefed and successfully argued appeals before the US Courts of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.