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

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
Dealmakers on notice as Illumina court loss bolsters EU regulator's stance on below-threshold referrals

13 July 2022 15:06 Natalie McNelis

Illumina may have been the first, but it likely won't be the last company caught by the EU merger regulator’s recent
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Europe
Broadcom’s VMware mega-deal likely to raise regulatory issues akin to Nvidia-Arm

27 May 2022 16:59 Natalie McNelis

Chipmaker Broadcom plans a $61 billion buyout of cloud giant VMware might give observers a feeling of déjà vu