Salavdiyeva, Madina

Madina Salavdiyeva

Associate

madina.salavdiyeva@lw.com
    Salavdiyeva, Madina

    Madina Salavdiyeva

    Associate

    madina.salavdiyeva@lw.com

    Profile

    Madina Salavdiyeva is an associate in the London office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Corporate Practice. Madina advises clients on a full spectrum of corporate transactions.

    Madina trained in Latham’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 the Litigation & Trial Department, assisting on a range of international arbitration and public international law cases.

    Madina is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion at the firm as a local head of Multicultural Promotion & Attainment Coalition (MPAC) and a committee member of the Women Lawyers Group (WLG). She maintains an active pro bono practice representing charities and vulnerable individuals.

    Experience

    Madina's recent experience includes advising:

    • Varkey Group, a holding company of the Varkey family, along with Brookfield Asset Management on its investment in GEMS Group, a UAE-based network of K-12 schools
    • Synthesia, the AI-powered video communications platform, on its Series D financing round
    • Hunza G, the sustainable swimwear brand, and its co-founder Georgiana Huddart on a management buy-out
    • A Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund on multiple growth equity investments
    • A media and entertainment company on its launch, corporate structuring and intellectual property portfolio across the UK, EU, US and Africa
    • FACEIT on the proposed acquisition by Savvy Gaming Group of FACEIT and ESL Gaming in an all-cash transaction valuing the combined group at an enterprise value of US$1.5 billion
    • B-FLEXION on its financing of Volta Trucks, Anglo-Swedish electric trucks company, and Evolito, UK electric urban air mobility company
    • ArchiMed Group on the sale of Bomi Italia, an Italy-based healthcare logistics company, to UPS, the world’s largest courier and logistics group
    • The ad hoc group of senior lenders to Vue Cinemas in relation to its ongoing c. €1 billion debt and equity restructuring
    • Octopus Investments on its seed round financing in Merge Money, a fintech startup for crypto exchanges
    • KKR on its exclusive multi-year agreement for up to €40 billion of eligible current and future Buy-Now Pay Later (BNPL) loans originated by PayPal in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom
    • Republic of Croatia in an investment treaty claim relating to the potential development of several golf courses, hotels, villas, and other luxury facilities overlooking the World Heritage Site of the Old City of Dubrovnik 
    • A State-owned gas and petroleum company in ICC arbitration and ancillary court proceedings in relation to disputes over an offshore oil concession in South America 
    • The senior secured lenders to the Lifeways Group, the UK’s largest supported living provider, in respect of its holistic balance sheet restructuring and recapitalization

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • England and Wales (Solicitor)

    Education

    • MSt, Cambridge University, 2023
    • LPC, BPP Law School, 2020
    • LLB in Law, London School of Economics, 2019

    Languages Spoken

    • English
    • Russian

    Practices

    Industries

    Recognition

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    February 20, 2025 Recognition

    Fintech Group of the Year: Latham

    Firm honored by Law360 for advising startups, financial institutions, VCs, digital asset and Web3 participants, and corporations on their most innovative and complex transactions, investigations, litigation, and regulatory matters.

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