Melanie Howard

Melanie’s experience includes advising:

• Novavax Inc., a global biotechnology company developing vaccines to address serious infectious diseases, on the sale of its manufacturing campus located in Bohumil, Jevany, Czech Republic, to Novo Nordisk, a leading global healthcare company
• Kraft Foods on its £11.9 billion hostile and ultimately successful offer for Cadbury*
• AB Inbev in relation to its business combination with SABMiller*
• Citigroup on the disposal of interests in EMI Group, the recorded music business, to Universal Music for £1.2 billion, and the music publishing business to a consortium including Sony Corporation of America and Mubadala Development for US$2.2 billion*
• 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