Anne‑Lise Betsey is a Senior Associate in ENSafrica Mauritius’s corporate commercial team, with a practice focused on cross‑border transactions, M&A, capital markets, tax structuring and regulatory compliance. She advises international sponsors, financial institutions, listed entities and multinational corporates on multi‑jurisdictional transactions across Africa.
Anne‑Lise has experience leading corporate transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructurings. She conducts due diligence exercises and drafts and negotiates key documentation such as shareholders’ agreements, constitutions, share and asset purchase agreements and a range of commercial contracts.
She regularly advises on capital markets matters, including private placements, securities offerings and ongoing issuer compliance. Her expertise covers listing rules, prospectus and disclosure requirements, corporate governance and engagement with regulatory authorities in relation to approvals and transactional clearances.
Anne‑Lise also advises on domestic and cross‑border tax structuring, including treaty analysis, regulatory considerations and the design of tax‑efficient investment and holding structures. Her experience includes renewable energy, where she advises on the structuring and negotiation of EPC, O&M and related project agreements, as well as financing and commercial arrangements for energy developments.
In addition, Anne‑Lise advises clients on data protection and privacy under the Mauritian Data Protection Act and international regimes such as the GDPR. She assists clients in implementing compliance frameworks, preparing data processing agreements and managing regulatory risk, including data breach response.
- Acted as counsel to a leading blue‑chip client in connection with its approximately USD 43 million green bond issuance, undertaken to refinance its Medium Scale Distributed Generation (MSDG1) renewable energy project and to fund the development of additional solar farms under the MSDG scheme.
- Assisted a leading French automotive group with an established presence in Mauritius in its acquisition of a well‑known automotive parts business, a transaction valued at approximately EUR 6 million, to support the expansion of its operations in Mauritius
- Provided Mauritian legal advice to an international client pursuing a multi‑jurisdictional acquisition of shares in a Liberian company. The transaction involved various investment layers and sophisticated instruments, including a Luxembourg‑law governed tracker certificate structured as a bond‑like vehicle for share subscription. My role centred on advising on all Mauritian regulatory, corporate, and transactional aspects of this structure.
- Capital markets: Debt
- Capital markets: Equity
- M&A
- Energy
- Financial services
- Bachelor of Laws, University of Mauritius, 2016
- Mauritius Law Society ( Roll of Attorneys), 2020