“I firmly believe that in order to help provide effective legal and commercial solutions, lawyers first have to be exceptionally empathetic listeners who can help to identify the root of the issues.”

Melanie advises on a wide range of corporate transactions across a range of sectors, including business and share sales and purchases, joint ventures and private company fundraisings, both domestically and internationally.

She has experience in a broad range of sectors, with particularly in transactions with a corporate real estate and technology focus.

Areas of practice include:

Admitted

2010: England and Wales

Relevant experience

Acting for the purchaser of the Body Shop International in 2024, advising in connection with investment arrangements between private investors.
Acting for an AIM-listed company in the clinical AI space on the £40 million sale of its subsidiary to GE Healthcare.
Acting for the founders of boutique hotel group on the sale of 50% of their interests in their operating group for £60 million.
Acting for an international property investor on the purchase of office and retail space in Wembley for £35 million.
Acting for an asset manager with a focus in the hotels sector on numerous hotel purchases (both share purchases and business purchases).