Elisa Durrette

Elisa Durrette is the Director at Museum of the African Diaspora. Prior to that, they were an Intellectual Property Transactions Associate at Ropes & Gray LLP from March 2015 to August 2017. In that role, they advised a wide range of companies, investors, and institutions in all manner of transactions involving intellectual property, including technology licensing, strategic collaborations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, supply and distribution arrangements, co-promotion agreements, outsourcing transactions, and other strategic commercial agreements.

Some of their notable transactions include representing Gawker Media in the sale of its media sites to a subsidiary of Univision, representing TPG Capital in its acquisition of a majority ownership stake in live artistic entertainment company Cirque du Soleil, and representing Netmarble Games Corp. in its agreement to acquire Kabam’s Vancouver studio - the maker of the award-winning mobile game Marvel Contest of Champions.

Elisa has a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College.

Elisa Durrette received their J.D. from Cornell Law School and their B.A. from Princeton University. Elisa specializes in corporate law.