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Alex Melia helps clients across a wide range of industries successfully resolve contentious and quasi-contentious matters, including litigation before the English courts, arbitral proceedings and internal corporate investigations. She also advises clients on the design, implementation and evaluation of global compliance programs and other anti-corruption compliance matters.
Representative Matters
Investigations & Anti-Corruption Compliance
- Conducting internal corporate investigations involving allegations of corruption and money laundering for clients in a wide range of industries.
- Advising an energy company on the reporting obligations that arise pursuant to the UK Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 following an internal corporate investigation.
- Representing a major pharmaceutical company in relation to a SEC inquiry involving FCPA issues in Europe.
- Advising clients across a wide range of industries on the compatibility of their anti-corruption policies with the UK’s anti-bribery regime.
- Advising healthcare, energy and financial services clients on corruption and ethics issues related to interactions with public officials.
- Conducting anti-bribery and anti-corruption risk assessments for clients in a wide range of industries, including for a US pharmaceutical company looking to expand into new markets and a Japanese manufacturer with a global footprint.
- Drafting and presenting tailored anti-corruption compliance training materials.
Honors and Rankings
- Finalist (Wig & Pen Prize), the Law Society Junior Lawyers Division Pro Bono Awards 2009.
Pro Bono
- Representing the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in connection with litigation in Bulgaria to recover Jewish property seized during World War II.
- Advising an international charitable organization that provides micro financing to the world’s lowest-income entrepreneurs on its incorporation as a company and registration as a charity in England and Wales.
- Providing corporate support to Evidence for Development, a charitable organization that develops economic models and analytical tools to assess international development interventions.
- Advising a charitable organization on the potential product liability issues arising from the supply of anti-retroviral drugs to patients in various parts of the Developing World.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Young International Arbitration Group
Publications and Speeches
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