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

Amazon’s iRobot deal likely to garner close regulatory scrutiny, deserved or not

01 June 2023 16:41 Natalie McNelis

Amazon’s plan to buy iRobot, notified to the European Commission today, is a deal that probably wouldn’t have raised objections some years ago.
TowerCast’s win could foreshadow Illumina’s loss

21 March 2023 09:26 Natalie McNelis

Illumina probably had a sinking feeling reading TowerCast’s win in the European Court of Justice
Korean Air's ready-made Asiana deal remedy will test EU's thinking on airline mergers

26 January 2023 14:25 Nicholas Hirst, Natalie McNelis, Jenny Lee

Korean Air Lines’ bid to take over its closest rival Asiana is the airline merger to test the European Commission
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