- Overview
- Experience
Introduction
Madina advises clients across the full spectrum of corporate transactions, with a focus on technology, fintech, gaming and entertainment, sports, and media.
Madina Salavdiyeva’s practice encompasses a wide range of acquisitions and dispositions, including mergers, asset and share purchases, joint ventures, minority and equity investments, management buyouts, and leveraged buyouts. She supports high-growth companies, investors, sovereign wealth funds, family-owned investment groups, and leading sports and entertainment organizations on financings, strategic investments, corporate structuring, and cross-border transactional matters.
Madina trained and qualified with a leading U.S. law firm’s London office, gaining a broad range of experience in M&A, venture capital, private equity, equity capital markets, restructuring and special situations, and structured finance transactions. She also spent time with a litigation and trial department, assisting with a range of international arbitration and public international law cases.
Madina is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the legal profession and maintains an active pro bono practice representing charities and vulnerable individuals. She actively participates in mentoring, diversity committees, and community outreach initiatives. Madina is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and speaks fluent Russian.
Education & credentials
- University of Cambridge, MSt, Entrepreneurship, 2023
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BPP Law School, LPC, 2020
- The London School of Economics and Political Science, LL.B., 2018
- England and Wales
- Latham & Watkins LLP, London, UK, Trainee Solicitor, 2021-2023; Associate, 2023-2026
- Mindshift Capital, Dubai, UAE, Intern, 2021
- A national cricket governing body on eight strategic partnerships for a professional cricket competition*
- A family holding company, alongside a global alternative asset manager, on its investment in a Middle East-based network of K-12 schools—the largest leveraged buyout in the Middle East*
- An AI-powered video communications platform on its U.S. $180 million Series D financing round*
- A sustainable swimwear brand and its co-founder on a management buyout*
- A Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund with multiple growth equity investments*
- A media and entertainment company on its launch, corporate structuring, and intellectual property portfolio across the United Kingdom, EU, United States, and Africa*
- On the proposed acquisition by a gaming and esports company of two esports platforms in an all-cash transaction valuing the combined group at an enterprise value of U.S. $1.5 billion*
- A live shopping platform on its Series A round*
- An esports team on partnership agreements and participation in a new gaming league*
- A sports investment company on multiple sports investments*
- Management of a recycling company on its sale to a private equity fund*
- An investment company on its financing of an electric truck company and an electric urban air mobility company*
- A power conversion technology company on its Series A round*
- A healthcare-focused private equity firm on the sale of an Italy-based healthcare logistics company to a global courier and logistics group*
- An ad hoc group of senior lenders to a cinema operator in relation to its ongoing approximately €1 billion debt and equity restructuring*
- An investment manager on its seed-round financing in a fintech startup serving crypto exchanges*
- A global investment firm on its exclusive multiyear agreement for up to €40 billion of eligible current and future buy now, pay later loans originated by a global payments company in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom*
- The senior secured lenders to the United Kingdom’s largest supported living provider in respect of its holistic balance sheet restructuring and recapitalization*
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A global packaging company on the sale of its European waste container business to a private equity firm*
*Prior experience