Melainie Mansfield is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and a member of the firm’s Corporate Group. Ms. Mansfield is a member of the firm’s Technology and Communication Practice sub-group and a member of the firm’s Diversity Committee. She has been a partner since 2004.
Primary Focus & Experience
Ms. Mansfield’s practice centers on transactional and general corporate representations. Her practice is focused on secured lending, acquisition finance, troubled debt restructuring, securities financings, and private equity investments, as well as mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters. Her clients include investment funds, banks and domestic and foreign companies. She has extensive experience across a broad range of industries, including technology, telecommunications, media,
manufacturing, retail and entertainment.
Her recent representations include:
- Debt and equity financing, including for acquisitions of public and private companies such as Purple Communications, ITC Deltacom, Encompass Digital Media, First Advantage, Shopzilla, and Dialogic Corporation
- Acquisitions by investment funds of assets in bankruptcy (363 sales) and other reorganization-based acquisitions
- Distressed investment reorganizations outside of bankruptcy for companies, lenders and private equity investors
- Offerings of high yield debt securities in U.S. capital markets, including acting in debt offerings by Integra Telecom Holdings, Inc. and Prospect Medical Holdings, Inc.
- Mergers, acquisitions and investments generally on behalf of private equity investors
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General corporate representation of public and private companies in the U.S. and abroad
Recognition & Accomplishments
Ms. Mansfield is consistently named as one of America’s leading Finance and Banking Lawyers by Chambers USA. In addition, she served as the managing editor of the Michigan Journal of International Law.