Konstantinos (Dean) Melitsanopoulos is a partner in the Global Corporate Group of Reed Smith. Dean has worked on billions of dollars of business transactions and concentrates his practice on advising a wide range of U.S. and international clients on private equity transactions, public and private mergers and acquisitions, emerging company/venture capital transactions, secondaries, alternative investments, financing transactions, corporate formation, corporate governance and securities compliance. His practice also includes taking a lead role in advising companies on accomplishing their short and long term goals in a wide range of fields, including (without limitation) financial services, technology, consumer brands and retail, life sciences, energy, shipping and transportation, and media and entertainment.