About

Melinda McAfee is responsible for all Abercrombie & Fitch’s global employment law support, leading a team across the US and Europe. A former Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP partner, her role has expanded with the brand, since her arrival in 2006. ‘Abercrombie became a global company at an accelerated rate,’ she says. ‘I am thankful that we had a very strong team of lawyers working together to handle this.’ McAfee works closely with the business function on initial new country entry and provides specialist support in areas such as data privacy, retail compliance and marketing. When it comes to outside counsel, AcAfee most values firms her team can have a ‘true partnership’ with. ‘The outside counsel we have the closest relationships with are those that call us proactively to let us know about a change in the law that will affect us, or trends they are seeing.’