Meytal McCoy

About Meytal McCoy

Meytal McCoy is special counsel in the Antitrust, Competition, and Trade practice, based in Washington, DC where she is a specialist focusing on advising clients on how to navigate the intricate regulatory web of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. Meytal is an experienced business counselor known for guiding clients with multi-million and multi-billion dollar transactions through the US merger control process for nearly two decades, including advocating for clients before the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ), and state attorneys general. 

Meytal has extensive experience helping clients manage complex multi-national transactions, including coordination of merger control and other regulatory filings in multiple jurisdictions.  She also has expertise counseling clients regarding Clayton Act Section 8 (interlocking directorates).  Meytal has worked with clients in a wide variety of industries, including consumer goods, manufacturing, health care and life sciences, financial services, and private equity/financial sponsors.

Recent work

• Cinven on sale of Kurt Geiger fashion brand to Steve Madden
• CVC on investment in Odevo, a tech-enabled residential management property management company
• Japanese Tobacco Co. in $2.4 billion acquisition of US cigarette maker Vector Group
• CVC on $925M acquisition of Mallinckrodt’s immunotherapy business Therakos.
• Novartis on exclusive strategic license with Arvinas, Inc., a clinical-stage biotech company for the global development and commercialization for a potential first-in-class prostate cancer treatment
• JD Sports on $1.08 billion acquisition of US athletic fashion retailer Hibbett Inc.
• eBay on acquisition of Golden Auctions, LLC
• General Atlantic on additional investment in Argus Media Group
• Cinven on majority investment in Alter Domus, a leading global provider of end-to-end tech-enabled fund administration and corporate services.
• Zeus Company, Inc., a medical device company, on acquisition by EQT
• CVC on acquisition of leading infrastructure manager, DIF, a combination that created a global private markets manager with approximately €177 billion total assets under management
• Aston Martin Lagonda on strategic supply agreement with Lucid
• Coupa on its $8 billion sale to Thoma Bravo
• Berkeley Lights, a life sciences company, on acquisition of IsoPlexis
• LSEG in strategic partnership with Microsoft
• CDPQ on $1bn commitment to Invernegy Renewables LLC, the largest private developer, owner, and operator of wind and solar projects in North America
• London Stock Exchange Group on acquisition of MayStreet, Inc.
• Aeroclean, an air hygiene technology company, in all-stock merger with Molekule, Inc., a manufacturer of premium air purifiers
• eBay in acquisition of TCGplayer
• CarLotz, a leading consignment-to-retail used vehicle marketplace, in sale to Shift Technologies, Inc., a leading end-to-end used vehicle ecommerce platform, in a stock-for-stock transaction
• Zymergen on its sale to Ginkgo Bioworks, representing the first-ever sale of a publicly-listed public benefit corporation