Elisa is Chief Investment Officer Global Intellectual Property at Tower Peak Partners LLP. Responsible for the firm’s Media & Entertainment division (M&E), her responsibilities extend from capital raising, deal origination, transaction negotiation, structuring and execution, as well as overseeing portfolio management for M&E within the firm’s investment team.
Before Tower Peak, Elisa founded Jacaranda Group, advising institutional investors and family offices with various mandates across Media & Entertainment. This included senior advisory roles with international VC-firms such as IPR.VC, based in Finland and Screen Capital based in Chile.
Prior to this, she was Head of Media Finance at Bank Leumi UK, overseeing the bank’s lending book across Film, TV, Music and Videogames with a focus on structured finance facilities for North American and European entertainment studios.
Elisa spent eight years with the Taurus Asset Finance Group across a variety of roles focusing primarily on the origination and structuring of transactions and management of private investment funds in Entertainment and Sports.
Following completion of a business degree where she received an award from the European Union, Elisa set up a film finance firm in London, enabling the production of independent films which made it to prestigious film festivals (Sundance and Venice). Prior to Business School and her first entrepreneurial venture, Elisa worked in the City of London both as a finance lawyer at Clifford Chance and an investment banker in the structured finance debt team of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.
Elisa began her career as a corporate finance lawyer in her native Brazil where she was part of the legal teams advising international investment banks in connection with issues of Eurobonds and IPOs by Brazilian entities and participated in the privatisation of the energy and oil sectors.
Elisa holds an MA in European Audiovisual Management from the Media Business School in Malaga, Spain and an LLM in International Law from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Elisa also holds a double undergraduate degree in Law and French from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil and Université de Nancy, France.