Marin Boney
Overview
Marin Boney is an antitrust and competition partner in Kirkland’s Washington, D.C., office. Ms. Boney regularly represents clients before the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice in complex merger reviews and government investigations. She also counsels clients on a range of business issues, including joint ventures, pricing and distribution agreements. Ms. Boney has represented clients in a wide variety of industries, with particularly strong experience in software and technology, energy, healthcare and consumer products and services transactions.
Before law school, Ms. Boney was an analyst at the economic consulting firm Lexecon Inc. (now part of Compass Lexecon).
Experience
Representative Matters
Software & Technology
- Ping Identity in its $2.8 billion sale to Thoma Bravo
- Datto in its $6.2 billion sale to Kaseya to combine two of the leading MSP channel software vendors
- Vista Equity Partners, alongside an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management, in its $16.5 billion acquisition of Citrix Systems and its $8.4 billion acquisition of Avalara
- Vista Equity Partners and Mindbody, a leading wellness technology platform, on the acquisition of ClassPass, the leading monthly wellness subscription service
- Vista Equity Partners in its $3.8 billion acquisition of Pluralsight and subsequent acquisition of A Cloud Guru
- Grubhub in its $7.3 billion acquisition by Just Eat Takeaway.com
- Zebra Technologies Corporation in its acquisition of Reflexis Systems, Inc.
- Grubhub, Inc. in its acquisition of Yelp’s Eat24 online food ordering business
- Vista Equity Partners in its $1.65 billion acquisition of Cvent; combining Cvent and Lanyon to create the largest supplier of meetings and events software; the transaction was cleared with no remedies imposed after an extensive Second Request investigation
- Epiq Systems in its $1 billion sale to OMERS Private Equity and Harvest Partners, combining Epiq and DTI, two leaders in the e-discovery software space
- Dealersocket in its acquisition of assets divested by merging parties Cox Enterprises and Dealertrack under a DOJ consent order
- Accenture plc, in the sale of its Navitaire airline reservation software business to Amadeus, clearing the transaction through U.S., U.K., and EU reviews, and in various other transactions
- Thoma Bravo in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Compuware and in its acquisition of Riverbed
- Infineon Technologies in its $3 billion acquisition of competitor International Rectifier, combining two leading worldwide suppliers of power semiconductors
- Metavante Technologies in its $10 billion acquisition by Fidelity National Information Services, which was cleared without a remedy after a full Second Request investigation
Energy
- EQT Infrastructure in its $5.3 billion acquisition of Covanta Holding Corporation
- Fortress in the formation of a JV with Phillips 66 and the sale of half the voting equity of United Pacific, a leading convenience store and gas station operator, and the acquisition by United Pacific in its acquisition of 95 gas stations and convenience stores from Platinum Energy
- Callon Petroleum Company in its $3.2 billion acquisition of Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc.
- C&J Energy Services in an approximately $1.8 billion merger-of-equals with Keane Group
- H.I.G. Capital in its sale of Enerwise Global Technologies, Inc. d/b/a CPower to LS Power
- GenOn in its pending sale of the Choctaw Energy Facility to Entergy
- The Blackstone Group and ArcLight in connection with the $2.17 billion acquisition of four Midwest power plants from subsidiaries of American Electric Power
- Talen Energy in its $1.6 billion sale to Riverstone
- NRG in its $1.7 billion merger with GenOn to create one of the largest competitive power generators in the U.S., as well as in multiple acquisitions of generation and retail assets in ERCOT and other regions
- Constellation Energy, in its $7.9 billion merger with Exelon to create the largest U.S. competitive power generator (with the nation’s largest nuclear fleet) and the second largest residential electricity and gas distribution company
- NRG Energy in rejecting Exelon's $6 billion 2009 hostile takeover bid
Healthcare
- GI Partners in its sale of Plum Healthcare and its 58 skilled nursing facilities to the Providence Group
- Radiology Partners in its $885 million acquisition of MEDNAX Radiology Solutions, a division of MEDNAX, Inc.
- Gryphon Partners and Water’s Edge Dermatology in its merger with Riverchase Dermatology
- GlaxoSmithKline in its $12.7 billion joint venture with Pfizer to combine their consumer health businesses
- Teva Pharmaceuticals, in its $40 billion acquisition of Allergan’s generics business, securing clearance with the largest and most complex pharmaceutical divestiture in FTC history and also in Teva’s acquisition of Allergan’s ANDA distribution business
- Lifewatch AG in its sale to BioTelemetry, Inc. for $280 million, combining two leaders in wireless cardiac monitoring technology
- Swander Pace Capital in its sale of Insight Pharmaceuticals to Prestige Brands
- Akorn, Inc. in its acquisition of VersaPharm
- Danaher in its $2.2 billion acquisition of Nobel BioCare
- Community Health Systems in its $3.6 billion acquisition of HMA to create the nation's largest for-profit hospital network
- Spectrum Pharmaceuticals in its acquisition of Allos Therapeutics, which was cleared with no remedies after a Second Request investigation
Consumer Products and Services
- Spectrum Brands in its $2 billion carve-out sale of its global consumer battery business to Energizer
- Vestar Capital, in the sale of Sun Products (all®, Sun®, Surf®, and Wisk® detergents) to Henkel, creating the second largest seller of detergents in the U.S.
- Leap Wireless in its $4 billion acquisition by AT&T, which was cleared without a remedy after an extensive Second Request investigation
- 3G Capital, in its partnership with Berkshire Hathaway to acquire H.J. Heinz for $28 billion
- Avis Budget Group, in its acquisitions of Zipcar and Payless and in FTC efforts relating to its proposed merger with Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group
- Sara Lee Corporation in its sale of Sara Lee’s bakery division to Bimbo Bakeries
Other
- Charter Communications in its formation of a 50/50 operating platform partnership with Comcast Corporation
- Boeing Corporation in its $3.2 billion acquisition of aerospace parts distributor KLX Inc.
- Wyndham Worldwide in its $1.95 billion acquisition of La Quinta’s hotel and franchise management business
- EQ in its $465 million sale to US Ecology
- Boise Cascade in its acquisition of wood products production facilities from Georgia Pacific
- Danaher Corporation in its $13.8 billion acquisition of Pall Corporation
- Roundy’s Inc. in its $800 million sale to Kroger Co.
- Clear Channel Outdoor in its sales of assets of its Americas Outdoor segment in certain non-strategic outdoor markets
- Flying J in its acquisition by Pilot Travel Centers
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Recognition
Recognized as a “Future Leader,” by Who’s Who Legal, 2021
Recognized in The Legal 500 U.S.
- Next Generation Lawyer for Antitrust: Merger Control, 2020–2021
- Antitrust: Merger Control, 2015, 2017–2019 and 2022
- Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions, 2015
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2009District of Columbia
- 2008Illinois
Education
- University of Chicago Law SchoolJ.D.with Honors2008Articles Editor, Legal Forum
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyS.B., Political Science2000