Bio

Christina Edling 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 a 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.