Meghan E. Fox is a counsel in the US executive compensation practice in New York.
She has more than 15 years of experience advising a wide variety of clients in transactional matters, including private and publicly held companies, with respect to the executive compensation and employee benefits issues arising in mergers and acquisitions, spinoffs, initial public offerings, restructurings, divestitures and other corporate transactions.
Meghan regularly advises clients on the design, implementation and administration of equity and cash-based incentive plans, the negotiation of employment, separation and incentive agreements and the applicable tax, securities law, corporate governance and disclosure implications of those arrangements.
- IonQ, Inc. in:
- its US$1.075 billion acquisition of Oxford Ionics
- its acquisition of Capella Space Corporation*
- CompoSecure's spin-off of a newly formed subsidiary, Resolute Holdings Management, Inc. to form a differentiated alternative asset management platform*
- EQT in its acquisition of a majority stake in Eagle Railcar Services from JM Texas Companies*
- Ares Management funds in their acquisition of Form Technologies, Inc.*
- Hemisphere Media Group, Inc. in its
- acquisition by Gato Investments LP, a portfolio investment of Searchlight Capital Partners, L.P.*
- agreement to sell Pantaya, to TelevisaUnivision*
- Neustar in its US$3.1 billion sale to TransUnion*
- KPS Capital Partners, LP
- and its portfolio company DexKo Global Inc. in the sale of DexKo to Brookfield Business Partners L.P. for US$3.4 billion*
- in its acquisition of a controlling stake in Tate & Lyle’s Primary Products business in North America and Latin America and its interests in the Almidones Mexicanos S.A. de C.V. and DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio-Products Company, LLC joint ventures having aggregate enterprise value of US$1.7 billion*
- QTS Realty Trust in its all-cash sale to Blackstone, in a transaction valued at approximately US$10 billion*
- QAD Inc.’s Special Committee in the US$2 billion all-cash sale of QAD to private equity firm Thoma Bravo*
- Chevron Corporation in its
- all-stock acquisition of Noble Energy Inc., at a total enterprise value of US$13 billion*
- agreement to acquire Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for US$50 billion, which Anadarko terminated in order to accept a superior proposal from Occidental Petroleum*
- Diamond Offshore in their chapter 11 cases in the Southern District of Texas*
- Kohlberg & Co. in its
- acquisition of a 50% stake in United States Infrastructure Corporation (USIC) from Partners Group for an enterprise value of US$4.1 billion*
- acquisition of Ob Hospitalist Group from Gryphon Investors*
- acquisition of Myers EPS from Graham Partners*
- acquisition of a majority stake in Parts Authority*
- acquisition, alongside Mubadala Investment Company, of a majority stake in PCI Pharma Services from Partners Group*
- acquisition of Nelipak Corporation from Mason Wells*
- Taylor Morrison Home Corporation in its
- US$2.4 billion acquisition of William Lyon Homes*
- initial public offering*
- The Chatterjee Group in its US$2.725 billion joint acquisition of the Lummus Technology, a division of McDermott International, Inc., in connection with the company’s chapter 11 case*
- Special Committee of the Board of Directors of CBS in its US$40 billion merger with Viacom to form ViacomCBS Inc.*
- ADT Inc. in its initial public offering*
- Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in its approximately US$5.2 billion acquisition by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited*
- Kate Spade & Company in its US$2.4 billion acquisition by Coach, Inc.*
- Time Warner Cable in its
- US$78.7 billion merger with Charter Communications*
- Terminated US$45.2 billion stock-for-stock merger with Comcast Corporation*
- General Atlantic in its acquisition of leading global beauty brand Too Faced Cosmetics*
*Matters prior to joining Clifford Chance.
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Contact details
- Clifford Chance, New York
- 212-878-3019
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- Practice area Employment, incentives & pensions, Tax
Career and qualifications
- Syracuse University – Martin J. Whitman School of Management (BS, Human Resource Management & Law and Public Policy), 2000