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Hogan Lovells promotes 31 to senior associates in UK
01 May 2019
Senior AssociateLondon
Email melissa.ratchev@hoganlovells.com
Phone +44 20 7296 5340
Fax +44 20 7296 2001
LanguagesEnglish
Practice groupCorporate & Finance
Melissa is a senior associate in the international corporate practice in London, advising clients on a wide range of corporate transactional and advisory matters, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions. She has worked for a number of clients in a wide variety of industry sectors. Melissa has a broad range of experience in general corporate and commercial matters, cross-border acquisitions and joint ventures, corporate governance, corporate restructurings and equity capital raisings.
Melissa was seconded to SABMiller's mergers and acquisitions team in 2013 for six months and again in 2015 for 12 months, working on various aspects of AB InBev's £79 billion takeover of SABMiller.
Education
Legal Practice Course, BPP Law School, 2012
LL.B., London School of Economics, 2010
Bar admissions and qualifications
Solicitor, England and Wales
ITV on its acquisition of the Twofour Group
SABMiller on its £79bn acquisition by AB InBev
SABMiller on its €2.55bn sale of its Peroni, Grolsch and Meantime businesses to Asahi
Novartis on its US$16bn portfolio transformation transactions with GSK
Luxaviation on the sale of its aircraft maintenance and repair business to Dassault Aviation
Zopa on its £60m private fundraising
Daimler on its investment in the Mercedes team
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01 May 2019