Natalie McNelis

Senior Correspondent

Natalie McNelis covers mergers for MLex in Brussels. Before joining MLex in 2017, she spent 20 years as an international trade and competition lawyer in law firms including Stibbe and WilmerHale. Natalie has a BA in English from Mount Holyoke College, a JD from Harvard Law School and an LLM in EU law from KU Leuven. She is admitted to the bar in New York.

Selected Insights by Natalie

Norsk Hydro’s Alumetal deal trouble shows EU vigilance for 'green killer acquisitions'

07 October 2022 15:35 Andrew Boyce, Natalie McNelis

Norsk Hydro’s Alumetal deal, EU heightened vigilance about large companies snapping up smaller, innovative competitors.
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Europe
Illumina says US judge’s findings on Grail deal decimate EU’s prohibition

14 September 2022 17:55 Natalie McNelis

Illumina says the findings of the US administrative law judge invalidating the FTC bid to block its acquisition of Grail
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Europe
Unwinding Illumina’s Grail deal will be a lengthy, and messy, process

07 September 2022 17:38 Natalie McNelis, Nicholas Hirst

Illumina will likely eventually have to unwind its acquisition of Grail as a result of the EU merger regulator’s block on it
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Europe
Illumina-Grail’s EU veto sees return of the innovation theory of harm

06 September 2022 16:27 Natalie McNelis, Nicholas Hirst

EU’s Illumina-Grail merger review has been a procedural rollercoaster
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Europe
Illumina’s EU merger review could move fast now that court has spoken

13 July 2022 16:33 Natalie McNelis

EU review of Illumina’s $8 billion takeover of cancer-testing company Grail could move quickly now that Court has spoken
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Europe