Megan MacDonald

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Tel: +44 20 7786 3031

Overview

Megan MacDonald is a corporate associate based in the London office and a member of the Antitrust Group. Ms. MacDonald’s practice focuses on EU and ... Read Full Biography

Experience

- Providence Equity Partners in its majority investment of €200 million in Smartly.io.
- Lovell Minnick in its take-private deal for Charles Taylor, a leading provider of professional services to the global insurance market.
- Solenis, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, in its combination with BASF's paper and water chemicals business.
- A private equity fund in the subscription of subordinated convertible promissory notes in a Cayman Islands incorporated company which operates an energy business in Africa.
- Discovery, Inc. in its $14.6 billion acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive.

Education

University of Bristol, 2015, LL.B.

Megan MacDonald is a corporate associate based in the London office and a member of the Antitrust Group.Ms. MacDonald’s practice focuses on EU and UK competition law and regulation, including obtaining clearance for complex merger investigations before the European Commission and UK competition authorities, as well as coordinating merger approvals across multiple jurisdictions worldwide. She also has experience advising clients on behavioural matters, including investigations of alleged abuses of dominance and EU state aid matters.Ms. MacDonald's recent publications include “Excessive pricing: new use for a neglected tool in the enforcement armoury,” Global Competition Review (June, 2017). Ms. MacDonald joined Debevoise as a trainee solicitor in 2016. She graduated from Bristol University in 2015 where she received an LL.B. with first class honours. She then went on to study at BPP University, London where she passed with distinction. Ms. MacDonald was admitted as a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales in 2018.