About Melissa

Melissa is a corporate transactional lawyer, representing clients in general business and transactional matters of all types, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, lending transactions, and financing transactions. She also assists start-up businesses with entity formation, including articles of organization, financing concerns, and liability issues. Melissa also uses her background in the mortgage industry to represent both buyers and sellers of commercial real estate in every aspect of the purchase process. She drafts and negotiates purchase agreements, lease agreements, financing instruments, and all other related agreements. She also counsels clients on every step of the due diligence process relating to title, survey, financing and land use matters. Publications and Presentations Moderator, ”An Industry on the Brink: Legal Developments in Esports," Cleveland-Marshall College of Law’s Entertainment and Sports Law Symposium, April 12, 2019 Co-author (with Ryan Fairchild), "The Business of Being a Pro Gamer: Four Ways to Protect Your Value," Esports Observer,? February 2018 Author, Seduction by Technology: Why Consumers Opt Out of Privacy by Buying into the Internet of Things, 94 TEX L. REV. 1023 (2016)

Practice Areas

Education

• The University of Texas, J.D., graduated 2016
• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., graduated 2009

Bar Admissions

• North Carolina, North Carolina

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