Alisa Melekhina

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Tel: +1 212 909 6517

Overview

Alisa Melekhina is a litigation associate whose practice focuses on white collar investigations and general commercial litigation and intellectual property ... Read Full Biography

Experience

- Resolution Life, a global life insurance group focusing on the acquisition and management of portfolios of life insurance policies, in a seven day bench trial resulting in an award of $75 million in damages and pre-judgment interest. The case stemmed from an attempted 2017 transaction in which Resolution Life sought to sell its Nebraska-based life insurance company, Lincoln Benefit Life, to Global Bankers Insurance Group.
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, its Fund VIII, and certain CD&R partners as defendants in shareholder litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery challenging the multibillion dollar stock-for-stock merger of Ply Gem with NCI Building Systems.
- Sberbank in multiple proceedings filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York relating to contested foreclosures.
- A registered investment company in an SEC investigation of alleged dealer-interposed cross-trades.
- A large Russian car dealership and its beneficiary in the dispute against a Russian businessman related to debt recovery.
- Take-Two Interactive Software in its response to Karen Gravano, daughter of Sammy the Bull Gravano and formerly featured on the reality show Mob Wives, who contends that the character Antonia Bottino in the video game Grand Theft Auto V infringes her right of publicity.

Education

University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2014, J.D.
Drexel University, 2011, B.A.

Alisa Melekhina is a litigation associate whose practice focuses on white collar investigations and general commercial litigation and intellectual property disputes. Ms. Melekhina has represented Russian-based clients in U.S. litigation proceedings. She is highly experienced in leading large e-discovery teams during complex and cross-border litigation and financial regulatory investigations, working across legal, tech, and client teams. She has recently published articles on e-Discovery best practices and cross-border data minimization in the New York Law Journal. Ms. Melekhina joined Debevoise in 2014. She received a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a Certificate in Business Economics and Public Policy from the Wharton School of Business in 2014. Ms. Melekhina was an associate editor of the Journal of International Law. While in law school, she founded the Eastern European Law Students Association (EELSA). Ms. Melekhina also served as the President for the Penn Law Intellectual Property and Art Law groups. She interned in the Anti-Piracy group of the Legal Department at FOX Filmed Entertainment in Los Angeles.Ms. Melekhina received her B.A. summa cum laude from Drexel University in 2011, graduating in two years and receiving the Highest Academic Achievement Award.Ms. Melekhina is a nationally ranked competitive tournament chess player and an internationally ranked chess master, and a frequent public speaker and lecturer on chess topics. In 2009, she won the gold medal in the Women’s World Team Championships held in Ningbo, China. Ms. Melekhina is also classically trained in ballet.Ms. Melekhina is the author of “Career Crossroads,” Chess Life (April, 2015) and the subject of the article “Debevoise Associate Moonlights as Chess Champion,” The American Lawyer (January, 2015). She is the co-author of “Navigating Cross-Border E-Discovery and Data Transfers in U.S. Litigation and Investigations,” New York Law Journal (January, 2023); “Practice Pointers for Streamlining and Managing Complex E-Discovery,” Law.com (September, 2022); “Spotlight on Russia and its Neighbors,” FCPA Update, Vol. 6, No. 11 (June, 2015); “Between A Rock And A Hard Place: Anti-Corruption Compliance And Antitrust Law In Russia,” CEE Legal Matters (May, 2015); “Compliance in a Hot Zone: Ukraine Enacts New Anti-Corruption Laws,” FCPA Update, Volume 6, Number 7 (February, 2015) and “Intellectual Property Issues in Chess Games,” Oxford University Press (2011).Her speaking engagements include “All Rights Reversed: Dissecting Novel Legal Issues in Generative AI,” Law.com LegalWeek (March 2023) and numerous lectures over the years on chess careers, theory, and strategy.Ms. Melekhina was born in Crimea, Ukraine and is a native Russian speaker.