Melissa is part of the Walkers Global Investment Funds Group and co-heads the global Fintech Group. She has extensive experience in investment fund structures, including private equity funds, hedge funds, technology and venture capital funds and cryptocurrency funds.

Melissa regularly acts for leading investment managers and private-equity houses. She advises on structuring and forming funds, their downstream transactions and exit mechanisms. An important part of her work involves advising on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, preference-share issues, corporate restructurings and other corporate transactions, and FinTech transactions including blockchain projects and digital assets. She also has significant expertise advising on finance transactions (in particular, capital commitment subscription financing), and security creation and perfection.