Edu Elias
Profile/Experience
Elias is a Chartered Secretary and an Associate of the Chartered Governance Institute (UK). He is a proficient governance professional with extensive experience spanning two decades mainly in governance and legal advisory services. He has served as Company Secretary and legal adviser to various boards in multicultural environments and have overseen several complex transactions in the financial services sector with particular specialty in consolidation transactions (mergers and acquisitions) and greenfield projects. Elias has advised several boards across both anglophone and francophone West and East Africa. With core competencies in the area of negotiation, stakeholder management, risk management and legal advisory services amongst others, Elias has successfully handled/participated in several big transactions including the acquisition in 2005 of National Insurance Corporation Limited by Industrial and General Insurance Plc which still ranks as one of the biggest FDI in the insurance sector of Uganda.
Elias is highly resourceful and ready to assist with innovative solutions to complex legal and governance issues.
Education/Qualification
LL. B, BL, LL.M, MBA, ACG (Uk), Cert-CII (Uk) and ACIarb