Melanie Howard
Partner
London
melanie.howard@lw.com
+44.20.7710.1838
PRACTICES
- Corporate Governance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity
- Restructuring & Special Situations
INDUSTRIES
- Digital Health
- Financial Institutions
- Fintech
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Retail & Consumer Products
EDUCATION
- BA, University of Tasmania, 2001
- LLB, University of Tasmania, 2001
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
PROFILE
Melanie Howard advises clients on complex European and cross-border transactions.
Melanie draws on her broad experience to help companies, private equity funds, and investment banks navigate:
- Cross-border public and private M&A
- Takeover code issues
- Securities law and listing rules
- Corporate and acquisition financing structures
- Highly regulated global carve-outs
- Strategic M&A
Before joining Latham, she was a partner at another international law firm.
EXPERIENCE
Melanie’s experience includes advising:
- Barclays on its:
- US$13.5 billion sale of BGI to BlackRock, following its proposal to sell iShares to CVC for US$4.4 billion*
- Acquisition of Lehman Brothers North American investment banking and capital markets businesses*
- A consortium member on a Brookfield-led consortium’s £2.2 billion recommended cash offer for Network International Holdings*
- An investor in EQT’s £4.4 billion successful offer for Dechra*
- S&P Global on:
- Selling its global engineering business to KKR*
- Its US$44 billion merger with IHS Markit and the post-acquisition integration*
- Acquiring the Shades of Green business from the Center for International Climate Research*
- GlaxoSmithKline on selling its cephalosporin antibiotics business to Sandoz*
- Mondelez International on:
- Selling Cadbury World*
- Acquiring Grenade*
- Alawwal Bank on its merger with the Saudi British Bank*
- Ahli United Bank on acquiring Citi’s consumer banking business in Bahrain*
*Matter handled prior to joining Latham