Onalenna Otlaadisa Diloro is a seasoned attorney with over 14 years' post-qualification experience in corporate and commercial law. She was previously a partner at a leading Botswana corporate and commercial firm, Bookbinder Business Law.
Onalenna’s broad corporate and commercial expertise includes insolvency and restructuring, banking and finance, commercial dispute resolution, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory and general corporate commercial work. She has previously served as a legal advisor at a leading bank, in addition to her international corporate commercial law experience which she obtained whilst on secondment in the corporate department of Slaughter and May (London office). In addition to her commercial law expertise, Onalenna is a corporate governance specialist, advising large and medium sized entities on corporate governance. She currently serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Botswana Development Corporation Limited (BDC) where she chairs the Board Risk and Compliance Committee. She also sits as an Independent Non-Executive Director on the board of Minet Retirement Solutions (Pty) Limited (Formerly AON Retirement Solutions (Pty) Limited), where the chairs the Remunerations and Nominations Committee.
She holds a Master of Laws (LLM) in Commercial and Corporate Law from Queen Mary University of London and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from the University of Botswana.
Onalenna has consistently been ranked by Chambers Global as a business lawyer with specific strength in insolvency and restructuring and corporate finance. She is also ranked by Global Law Experts as a leading insolvency and restructuring practitioner in Botswana.
