Christina Melendi has represented private equity firms and their portfolio companies for more than 20 years, providing strategic and structuring advice across a wide range of complex transactions. Christina focuses her private equity and corporate and securities practice on representing private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies and public and private companies in complex mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions, including divestitures, asset purchases, minority investments, and joint ventures. She also advises institutional and mezzanine investors in co-investment transactions with private equity sponsors and restructuring and workout transactions.
Christina serves as the global leader of the firm’s corporate and business transactions practice, a former co-leader of the firm's global private equity practice and a member of the firm’s advisory board, and is a former leader of the firm’s retail and ecommerce industry team.
While Christina represents clients in investments across many industries, she has a strong focus on the retail and ecommerce, hospitality, financial services, and healthcare industries. She also represents asset management firms in M&A and investment transactions and frequently advises companies on corporate and governance matters.
Christina also assists companies to raise capital in the public markets, including initial public offerings and secondary offerings, and counsels clients on SEC reporting and securities law disclosures.
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Member, Private Equity Editorial Advisory Board, Law360 (2023)
Leading Lawyer, M&A/corporate and commercial: Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m), The Legal 500 US (2024)
Recommended, M&A/corporate and commercial: Private equity buyouts, The Legal 500 US (2022, 2023)
Listed, Minority Corporate Counsel Association, Rainmaker (2021)
Listed, IFLR1000 United States, Notable Practitioner (2018, 2020)
Listed, IFLR1000 Financial and Corporate, Notable Practitioner (2019–2023)
Listed, M&A Advisor, 40 Under 40 (2013)
Listed, New York Metro Super Lawyers, Rising Star(2013–2015)
Board of Directors (2011–2016), Board President (2012–2016), HandCrafting Justice
Member, American Bar Association
Member, New York State Bar Association
Member, California Bar Association
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