Melanie Johnson
Melanie Johnson is a senior knowledge lawyer supporting the financial services regulatory team, and is based in the London office. Melanie’s background focuses on financial services regulation in the UK and EU with a focus on wholesale financial markets. Before joining the Hogan Lovells, Melanie was a professional support lawyer and head of LexisPSL Financial Services at Lexis Nexis in London. Prior to moving into legal professional support, Melanie was a senior associate in the financial regulation practice at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe where she also completed a secondment at derivatives and forex broker Marex. Before Orrick, Melanie worked in the legal team at Morgan Stanley providing legal and compliance advice to the sales and trading equities business. Prior to her move into financial services regulation in 2009, Melanie was a transactional lawyer in the leveraged finance practice of DLA Piper UK LLP.