Elsie Rasolohery

Over the span of two decades, Elsie has cultivated a comprehensive international background, both as in-house legal counsel and external advisor. Her journey includes serving a global technology and outsourcing organization and a pan-African law firm headquartered in Mauritius.

Her expertise lies in amalgamations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and capital markets. Elsie's portfolio encompasses takeovers, securities transactions, shareholder agreements, schemes of arrangement, private placements, SEM listing (Official List and Secondary Market), rights offerings, underwriting, as well as crafting and negotiating shareholder agreements, sale of assets/shares agreements, and joint venture agreements. She's offered counsel to both listed and unlisted corporate clients in the local arena, managing corporate matters and leading due diligence investigations into Mauritian corporations.

Elsie's career spans various jurisdictions, including Madagascar, France, England, and Mauritius. She's adept at advising on business, corporate, investment, property, banking, and technology law matters, playing a pivotal role in diverse global-scale commercial and corporate transactions. Elsie excels in legal process outsourcing, contract management, and ensuring legal and regulatory compliance and risk management.

Throughout her professional journey, Elsie has overseen teams of over 25 lawyers, crafting training initiatives on business continuity, data protection, and M&A for both business and legal units. She's also orchestrated orientation programs for newcomers, focusing on culture, values, ethics, and compliance.

Since 2016, she's served as a lecturer for the M&A Workshop at LLM International Business Law Sorbonne-Assas International Law School Limited Mauritius (Pierrefonds, Mauritius).

Furthermore, Elsie is the founder of DS Privacy Consulting Ltd and holds GDPR certified Data Protection Officer (DPO) credentials accredited by the French Authority (CNIL) through CESI.