Ms Onalenna Otlaadisa

Appointed 01 February 2020 
 
Ms. Otlaadisa 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. 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. 
 
She holds a Master 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 practise as an attorney, notary, and conveyancer in 2008.