Melinda’s practice includes capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions of public and private companies, and transactions involving corporations and partnerships. In addition, she counsels clients on corporate governance, shareholder proposals and proxy contests. She advises public companies, audit committees and compensation committees on SEC reporting, proxy statement disclosures and governance. She has experience advising companies on restructurings and related public disclosures.

Her M&A experience includes business combinations of public companies, joint ventures, restructuring transactions, and acquisitions and dispositions of assets. She has experience representing special committees of the Board of Directors in connection with complex transactions and the issuance of classes of equity securities. Melinda’s capital markets experience includes representing issuers and underwriters in public offerings of debt, common stock and other securities. She has experience advising companies and shareholders in connection with proxy contests and governance policies, as well as shareholder agreements and voting agreements.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, University of Houston Law Center, Houston Law Review, Chief Research Editor, Order of the Barons, 1990

MBA, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1986

BA, Middlebury College, 1973

• AK Migration: Serving on the Board of a Public Company: Roadmap for Directors
• Recent SEC Staff Comments Challenge Reporting of Equity Compensation
• AK Migration: SEC Proposes Disclosure Rules for Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers
• AK Migration: Securities and Exchange Commission Adopts Final Whistleblower Rules under the Dodd-Frank Act; Internal Reporting Encouraged but Not Required
• Non-GAAP Financial Measures: New Scrutiny
• SEC Enforcement Focused on Non-GAAP “Prominence” Requirement
• AK Migration: Steps to Take During the IPO Registration Period
• ISS Releases Voting Policy Updates for 2014 Proxy Season
• Public Company Directors – Managing Reputational Risks, Straightline
• Eye on the Exit: Building Value of a Business for Future Sale, Straightline
• Obama Administration Announces Financial Regulatory Overhaul
• Administration Unveils Over-The-Counter Derivatives Reform
• Friending Social Media: How to Manage Legal Risks
• Takeaways From SEC Comments On New Oil, Gas Rules, Law360
• “ACCESS” 2010 Word of the Year, Straightline