Milena's experience

Milena Radoycheva is a solicitor and an experienced general counsel and trusted adviser, specialist in corporate transactions, commercial contracts and IP commercialisation. Milena has worked in a number of international law firms in the City of London (and for a year also in Hong Kong) and has led a number of in-house legal teams as general counsel.

Here are examples of Milena’s experience:

Strategic Transactions

Helping:

• • a higher education client with various joint ventures and shareholder matters such as:
    • • an investment in, and subsequent exit from, a digital media company that offers education content to schools
      • the setting up and investing in a company to create new business innovation space in West London
      • disposal of shares in a joint venture company engaged in the provision of imaging services
      • membership in a company dedicated to vaccines manufacturing and innovation as part of the UK’s national scientific infrastructure
      • the acquisition of an external research group and its assets
  • a major US institution in relation to a joint venture for the acquisition and development of outlet malls across China
  • an international marketing communication network with the acquisition of a medical and scientific communications business
  • a venture capital firm with investing in a joint venture providing micro financial services to consumers
  • an alternative investment products manager with the acquisition of a controlling stake in a company providing oil field services
  • AIM-listed companies with the acquisition and disposal of various commercial real estate assets in Eastern Europe
  • various clients with corporate group restructurings including share issuances, capital reductions and winding up of companies
  • various clients with corporate and commercial due diligence including, by way of examples, in the context of the acquisition of the business of a provider of HR assessment solutions and the proposed acquisition of a telecommunications business

Commercial Operations Transactions

Helping various clients with:

• • procurement agreements such as hardware and software supply agreements, agreements with online platform providers and the setting up of an electric vehicle leasing scheme for employees
  • framework collaboration agreements
  • joint working agreements with public bodies
  • academic collaboration agreements and other education-related agreements such as visiting lecturers’ agreements, executive education services agreements, consultancy agreements
  • philanthropic agreements, sponsorship agreements, confidentiality, exclusivity agreements and memoranda of understanding

IP Transactions

Helping:

• • a higher education client with:
    • • bringing IP commercialisation activities in-house (previously contracted out)
      • trade mark licensing agreements
      • the management of its trade marks portfolio
      • liability provisions in research contracts
      • material transfer agreements
  • an environmental not-for-profit organisation with advice on use of third party IP
  • a client looking to develop therapies for the treatment of disease with the acquisition of a portfolio of patents, commercialisation terms and IP licensing
  • a life sciences company in its work on research and development of certain drug candidates with various master services agreements with commercial research organisations, consultancy agreements and NDAs
  • a bio tech company with R&D collaborations in relation to digital health and care solutions

Terms of Trade

Helping clients with their terms of business such as:

• • terms and conditions of service for environmental consultancy services and assurance services
  • terms and conditions for executive education services
  • terms and conditions for university students and summer schools
  • gym terms and conditions
  • accommodation licences terms and conditions

Compliance

Helping clients with various compliance matters such as:

• • data protection/ GDPR compliance
  • establishing a compliance model in respect of the National Security & Investment Act 2021
  • advice on consumer protection matters
  • advice on equality law matters

Governance

Helping clients with:

• • updating their financial regulations and delegated authority matrix
  • changing their articles of association
  • changing in-house contracting processes to enable the business to self-serve on lower risk contracts
  • company secretarial and board-related matters

Please note: The experience list above includes examples of work completed prior to the establishment of MR&T Advisory

Milena’s Professional Designations and Education

Admitted as a Solicitor of England and Wales in 2006 (currently practising) and as a Solicitor in the Republic of Ireland in 2019 (currently not practising)

BPP School of Law (now part of BPP University) – Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course, 2002 – 2004

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) – BSc International Relations, 1999 – 2002

Career

Milena has worked at the following organisations:

• • Ashurst, London
  • Gibson Dunn, London
  • Macfarlanes, London
  • Baker McKenzie, Hong Kong
  • Imperial College London
  • Keystone Law, London
  • The Carbon Trust, London