Melanie Martin

Melanie Martin is a Partner in the firm's Competition Law practice, based in the Glasgow office. She has a wide-ranging competition law practice with a particular focus on EU and UK merger control, representing clients before the Competition and Markets Authority and the European Commission. She also handles cartel investigations, leniency applications, dominance issues, market investigations, and subsidy control matters.

Ms. Martin has advised Avis Budget Group Inc. and Koç Holding on merger control issues relating to the acquisition of Olympic Commercial and Tourist Enterprises, and KPS Capital Partners LP on merger control and foreign direct investment filings for the acquisition of the Howden group. She also advised KKR on regulatory and competition due diligence in relation to its acquisition of Unilever's global baking, cooking, and spreads business, and Central Wire Industries on its acquisition by Altair Industries. She has attended multiple dawn raids by competition authorities, including one by the European Commission.

She is recognized as a rising star by Legal 500 and an associate to watch by Chambers, with clients describing her as "very good and thorough" and providing "technically complex competition advice in practical, bitesize pieces."