Vincent Melara works on corporate and securities transactions, helping senior deal lawyers on mergers and acquisitions, venture financings, and commercial contracts. He brings a practical grounding in IP and emerging-tech issues from prior work in the music and copyright space.
Within the firm’s deal teams, Vincent contributes to diligence, drafting, and closing workflows—helping prepare operative and ancillary agreements, coordinating document reviews, and tracking issues to keep matters on schedule.
His background includes legal roles with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Copyright Alliance, and GoldState Music, where he focused on AI, copyright, and right-of-publicity questions. While in law school at Wake Forest, he advised small businesses on trademarks and copyrights as part of the Intellectual Property Law Clinic. In addition, Vincent served as Articles Editor for the Wake Forest Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law, which published his article on AI “deepfakes” and the ELVIS Act.
Corporate & Securities
Vincent Melara works on corporate and securities transactions, helping senior deal lawyers on mergers and acquisitions, venture financings, and commercial contracts. He brings a practical grounding in IP and emerging-tech issues from prior work in the music and copyright space.
Within the firm’s deal teams, Vincent contributes to diligence, drafting, and closing workflows—helping prepare operative and ancillary agreements, coordinating document reviews, and tracking issues to keep matters on schedule.
His background includes legal roles with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Copyright Alliance, and GoldState Music, where he focused on AI, copyright, and right-of-publicity questions. While in law school at Wake Forest, he advised small businesses on trademarks and copyrights as part of the Intellectual Property Law Clinic. In addition, Vincent served as Articles Editor for the Wake Forest Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law, which published his article on AI “deepfakes” and the ELVIS Act.
