Melanie offers legal counsel on high yield trading matters to financial institutions. She provides counsel on the purchase, sale, participation and trading of financial assets, including loans, securities and other interests in domestic and international companies in, near, or emerging from financial distress.

Melanie advises clients throughout the lifecycle of club and syndicated loans, from primary asset syndication through pre-trade diligence, negotiation, trading and settlement, through restructuring (whether through bankruptcy or private transactions) or maturity. She also has extensive experience advising clients on secondary sale trades of private equity. Areas of substantive counsel include due diligence, internal compliance, regulatory, bankruptcy, and corporate and securities, with an emphasis on public side/private side, confidential information flow issues and Securities Act registration exemption analysis for secondary equity sales.

Melanie also serves as both hiring partner and administrative partner for the Charlotte office.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, University of South Carolina School of Law, magna cum laude, Articles Editor, South Carolina Law Review, 2002

BA, Political Science, University of Tennessee, 1999