Megan McMellon
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  • Virgin Atlantic on its solvent recapitalisation following the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global aviation industry. 
  • TripActions on its acquisition of high-end travel, meetings and events business Reed & Mackay. 
  • Sony Music Entertainment on its acquisition of podcast business Somethin’ Else. 
  • An investor on its acquisition of Newcastle United Football Club from St James Holdings, and an early-stage equity investment in Electric Sea Racing. 
  • MBDA on its landmark £1.9 billion air defence export agreement with the Polish government, and its £4 billion+ UK-Poland air defence deal strengthening European security – the largest-ever commercial agreement between the UK and Poland.

    • Pro bono

    • Hospital Liaison Volunteer for SANDS, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity (2024 – present).
    • Working with Maternity Action to provide free advice on parental rights and benefits in the context of issues arising in the workplace for pregnant women and new parents (2024 – present).
    • Volunteer Vaccinator for COVID-19 with St John Ambulance (2021 – 2022).
    • Advising Safe Passage UK and Refugee Legal Support on the IP aspects of the Afghan Pro Bono Initiative (2022).
    • Advising the Brazzaville Foundation on its Lome initiative, which is an international agreement to combat the trafficking of substandard and falsified medicines in Africa (2020 – 2021).
    • Key member of the team preparing the firm’s 2019 report regarding “The Recognition and Treatment of Relationships under Hong Kong Law”, commissioned by Hong Kong’s Equal Opportunities Commission (2018 – 2019).
    • Advising at Battersea Legal Advice Clinic (2017 – 2019).

    Published Work

    • Megan McMellon, Zara Sproul, Jacqueline Bore, Rafi Allos, Melissa Duquemin and Eda Zhuleku (2020) “Covid-19 and the Life Sciences Sector”, Practical Law

    Speaking Engagements

    • Speaker, “Strategic Alliances and Collaborations in the Pharmaceutical Sector”, European Pharma Law Academy, September 2023
    • Speaker, “Intellectual Property in AI”, Boston Bar Association IP Year in Review, March 2023
    • Speaker, “Strategic Alliances and Collaborations in the Pharmaceutical Sector”, European Pharma Law Academy, September 2022
    • Speaker, “IP and data in financial markets”, ICMA conference, June 2021
    • Speaker, “Drug formulations in life sciences transactions”, A&O client webinar, May 2021
    • Speaker, “IP in a transactional context”, A&O University of IP, February 2021
    • Speaker, “Beyond Covid-19 – implications for intellectual property”, A&O client webinar, July 2020
    • Speaker, “The key impacts of Covid-19 on intellectual property”, A&O client webinar, June 2020

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