Onalenna has 11 years’ post-qualification experience in corporate and commercial law. During the formative years of her career, she honed her skills in dispute resolution and handled many leading cases in commercial law in Botswana, primarily serving corporate and institutional clients in the financial services sector, mining and aviation. Her current practice includes banking, finance, insolvency and restructuring, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate commercial work. She has advised on a myriad of corporate and commercial matters including loan and asset financing, bank regulation, securities regulation, aircraft lease agreements, financial and operational restructuring, distressed acquisitions and sales and general corporate governance advisory. Her experience is augmented by her secondment to a leading bank in 2015 where she advised on banking and finance law. This is in addition to exposure to the international corporate atmosphere obtained whilst on secondment in the corporate department of Slaughter and May (London office) in 2012, where she assisted in various corporate transactions.

Onalenna holds a Masters of Laws (LLM) in Commercial and Corporate Law from Queen Mary University of London (2019) obtained through the prestigious Chevening Scholarship, and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from the University of Botswana (2008). She was admitted to practice as an attorney, notary and conveyancer in 2008.

Areas of Practice

Banking and Finance
Insolvency and Restructuring
Capital Markets
Regulatory
Corporate and Commercial

Qualifications

LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law (Queen Mary University of London)
LLB (University of Botswana)

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