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Borga Delessa

Associate

Borga Delessa is an Associate at MLA’s Corporate Practice Group. Before joining MLA, he used to work in the Ethiopian Investment Holdings (“EIH”) as a junior legal counsel. At EIH, Borga mainly was involved on facilitating joint venture investment transactions between EIH and private investors and advising the subsidiary state-owned enterprises on various corporate governance issues. During law school, he was a Board Member of the Addis Ababa University Student Law Review. Borga was also a member and team captain of the Addis Ababa University team which participated in the 30th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria.
  • LLB, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, with Very Great Distinction (2023)
  • Advised a multinational company on its compliance with local data protection laws
  • Advised a foreign client on the regulation of local insurance companies in their reinsurance transaction with offshore reinsurance companies
  • Advised a treaty-based organization on its acquisition of properties in Ethiopia
  • Advised a foreign company in applicable telecommunication and data protection laws for its planned services in Ethiopia
  • Advised on the procedures and effects for merging and other restructuring activities of portfolio subsidiary companies for optimization objectives

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