Melinda has over two decades of diverse transactional experience, with a focus on Corporate and Intellectual Property transactions.   She has represented clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies, and clients operating in a variety of industries, including pharmaceutical, medical device, technology, software, media, non-profits, publishing and government contracting companies.  

Melinda’s Intellectual Property practice focuses on technology-related transactions and the   development, protection, transfer and commercialization of intellectual property assets. Her experience in this area includes drafting and negotiating licensing arrangements, outsourcing arrangements, clinical trial agreements, research collaborations, joint venture arrangements, reseller and distribution agreements, development and service agreements, technology transfer arrangements, intellectual property assignment agreements, software as service arrangements, employment-related agreements and general commercial transactions.  In this capacity, she has particularly concentrated on life sciences transactions. Her Corporate practice focus on mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, capital raising transactions, and corporate governance.  She has helped clients in all stages of the corporate life cycle, including matters ranging from corporate formation and daily governance, to the structuring of financing transactions, to exit transactions and dissolutions.  Melinda also has experience with intellectual property and technology licensing aspects of corporate transactions and related due diligence matters.

Melinda graduated from the College of William & Mary School of Law, where she served as an Editor on the William & Mary Law Review.   She also holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in International Relations.  Prior to joining Amplify, Melinda worked in the Corporate and Intellectual Property practice groups of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer.  Melinda is admitted to practice in Colorado and Virginia.

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In her free time, Melinda enjoys spending time with her family, cooking, hiking and exploring beautiful Colorado.