Milena Radoycheva

Expertise

Commercial

• Commercial contracts including supply agreements, academic collaboration agreements, service agreements with private counterparties and with government bodies, consultancy agreements, philanthropic agreements, sponsorship agreements
• Protection and exploitation of IP rights and technology
• Terms and conditions of service with particular specialism in the higher education sector
• Confidentiality, exclusivity agreements and memoranda of understanding
• Advising on compliance challenges in the higher education sector such as in the areas of data protection, national security, equality law and consumer protection

Corporate

• Joint ventures (corporate and contractual)
• Asset acquisitions and disposals including transfers of businesses as a going concern and also transfers of ad hoc assets such as IP and equipment
• Private mergers and acquisitions and investments in private companies
• Shareholders’ agreements and investment agreements
• Management buy-outs and buy-ins
• Corporate reorganisations and restructurings
• Transactional due diligence

Experience

• Advised Imperial College London (a Royal Charter corporation and an exempt charity):
  • on 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, 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 and membership in a company dedicated to vaccines manufacturing and innovation as part of the UK’s national scientific infrastructure
  • on the bringing of IP commercialisation activities in-house (previously contracted out)
  • on framework collaboration agreements with public research counterparties and other universities and joint working agreements with public bodies
  • on the transfer of a research group to the College from another HEI structured as an asset acquisition
  • on its GDPR-readiness programme
  • on its Brexit preparations
• Advised various clients on corporate group restructurings, share issuances, capital reductions and winding up of companies
• Advised a major US institution in relation to a joint venture for the acquisition and development of outlet malls across China
• Advised an international marketing communication network on the acquisition of a medical and scientific communications business
• Advised a venture capital firm on investing in a joint venture providing micro financial services to consumers
• Advised an alternative investment products manager in the acquisition of a controlling stake in a company providing oil field services
• Assisted AIM-listed companies on the acquisition and disposal of various commercial real estate assets in Eastern Europe
• Assisted 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

Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.

Career

Milena qualified as a solicitor in 2006. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2021, she worked at the following firms:

• Imperial College London
• Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
• Baker & McKenzie LLP (Hong Kong)
• Macfarlanes LLP
• Ashurst LLP