Biography
Elysangela Rabelo is the founder of Rabelo Law (former Rabelo Maurer Advocacia), a boutique law firm focused on Life Sciences & Healthcare, that provides its clients with an unique combination of solid transactional, M&A, Corporate, contract, health data privacy and compliance experience, with a vast regulatory knowledge.
She is a lawyer for over 25 years, and has vast experience in foreign investment, M&A, contract and regulatory matters in Life Sciences and Healthcare. In addition to hospitals, lab analysis, healthtechs, health insurance companies, and specialty clinics, she also assists clients in the pharmaceutical, medical device, cosmetics, and food industries. Her work extends to corporate governance, compliance, health data privacy, innovations and strategic matters.
Elysangela pioneered the practice of Transactional and Regulatory Life Sciences and Healthcare in Brazil, combining M&A, Transactional, and regulatory expertise together. She has represented national and foreign clients in Life Sciences and Healthcare transactions of different sizes. Her transactional experience goes from the sale of specialty clinics to strategic investors, assisting a global medical device companies in PPPs, and sale of private hospitals, to the acquisition of drug manufacturing facilities, and cross-border transactions for the sale of pharmaceutical, and consumer health assets. Elysangela has acted in transactions with a total amount of approximately R$26,5 billion (approx. USD 5,5 billion).
Elysangela graduated from Law School in 1998, from Universidade São Judas Tadeu, São Paulo, pursued Graduate studies on Law of Business Enterprises, at Harvard University in 2006, took a Business Management course at the Business School São Paulo in 2007, obtained a Compliance & Ethics Professional Certificate – CCEP-I, from SCCE, in 2017, and a Privacy and Data Protection certification from Data Privacy Brasil, in 2020.
She is recommended by Chambers Latin America, Chambers Brazil, Latin Lawyer 250 and Who's Who Legal, relevant international legal guides.