Marin Boney
Overview
Marin Boney is an antitrust and competition partner in Kirkland’s Washington, D.C., office. She regularly represents clients before the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice in merger reviews of complex cross-border transactions, including numerous Second Request investigations. She also counsels clients on a range of business issues, including joint ventures, pricing, distribution policies, and partner agreements, and works with clients to design and implement antitrust compliance programs. Marin has represented clients in a wide variety of industries, with particularly strong experience in software and technology, energy, healthcare and consumer products and services transactions.
Before law school, Marin was an analyst at the economic consulting firm Lexecon Inc. (now part of Compass Lexecon).
Experience
Representative Matters
Software & Technology
- PowerSchool (PWSC) in its $5.6 billion sale to Bain Capital
- Cvent (CVT) in its $4.6 billion sale to Blackstone
- Ping Identity in its $2.8 billion sale to Thoma Bravo
- Datto in its $6.2 billion sale to Kaseya to combine two of the leading MSP channel software vendors
- Vista Equity Partners in its $16.5 billion acquisition of Citrix Systems (alongside Elliott Investment Management), its $8.4 billion acquisition of Avalara, its $4.6 billion acquisition of KnowBe4, and $4 billion acquisition of EngageSmart, and in various other transactions.
- Gryphon Investors in its portfolio company Ncontracts’ acquisition of Venminder and the simultaneous sale of the combined company to Hg
- Mindbody, a leading wellness technology platform, and Vista Equity Partners on the acquisition of ClassPass, a leading monthly wellness subscription service
- Warburg Pincus in its acquisition of Pharma Intelligence from Informa and Citeline in its merger of equals with Norstella
- Grubhub in its $7.3 billion acquisition by Just Eat Takeaway.com
- Warburg Pincus and its portfolio company Qualifacts on its acquisition of Credible Behavioral Health
- Zebra Technologies Corporation in its acquisition of Reflexis Systems, Inc.
- Grubhub, Inc. in its acquisition of Yelp’s Eat24 online food ordering business
- Lanyon and Vista Equity Partners in Lanyon’s $1.65 billion acquisition of Cvent; combining Cvent and Lanyon to create the largest supplier of meetings and events software.
- Dealersocket in its acquisition of assets divested by merging parties Cox Enterprises and Dealertrack under a DOJ consent order
- Accenture plc, in the sale of its Navitaire airline reservation software business to Amadeus, clearing the transaction through U.S., U.K., and EU reviews, and in various other transactions
- Infineon Technologies in its $3 billion acquisition of competitor International Rectifier, combining two leading worldwide suppliers of power semiconductors
- Metavante Technologies in its $10 billion acquisition by Fidelity National Information Services
Energy
- EQT Corp. in its $35 billion merger with Equitrans Midstream Corp. to create a vertically integrated natural gas business
- Consortium of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) in the pending $6.2 billion acquisition of ALLETE, Inc.
- Maverik in its acquisition of Kum & Go, a convenience store chain with over 400 locations across 13 states
- Archaea Energy Inc. in its $4.1 billion sale to bp p.l.c.
- EQT Corporation in its $5.2 billion acquisition of Tug Hill’s upstream assets and XcL Midstream’s gathering and processing assets from Quantum Energy Partners
- Arclight in the sale of its interest in Thorntons LLC, a convenience store chain with over 200 locations across the Midwest and Florida, to bp p.l.c.
- EQT Infrastructure in its $5.3 billion acquisition of Covanta Holding Corporation
- Fortress in the formation of a JV with Phillips 66 and the sale of half the voting equity of United Pacific, a leading convenience store and gas station operator, and the acquisition by United Pacific in its acquisition of 95 gas stations and convenience stores from Platinum Energy
- Alta Resources in the $2.925 billion sale of its upstream and midstream subsidiaries for cash and public stock consideration to EQT Corp.
- Callon Petroleum Company in its $3.2 billion acquisition of Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc.
- C&J Energy Services in an approximately $1.8 billion merger-of-equals with Keane Group
- H.I.G. Capital in its sale of Enerwise Global Technologies, Inc. d/b/a CPower to LS Power
- GenOn in its sale of the Choctaw Energy Facility to Entergy
- The Blackstone Group and ArcLight in connection with the $2.17 billion acquisition of four Midwest power plants from subsidiaries of American Electric Power
- Talen Energy in its $1.6 billion sale to Riverstone
- NRG in its $1.7 billion merger with GenOn to create one of the largest competitive power generators in the U.S., as well as in multiple acquisitions of generation and retail assets in ERCOT and other regions
- Constellation Energy, in its $7.9 billion merger with Exelon to create the largest U.S. competitive power generator (with the nation’s largest nuclear fleet) and the second largest residential electricity and gas distribution company
- NRG Energy in rejecting Exelon's $6 billion 2009 hostile takeover bid
Healthcare
- GI Partners in its sale of Plum Healthcare and its 58 skilled nursing facilities to the Providence Group
- Radiology Partners in its $885 million acquisition of MEDNAX Radiology Solutions, a division of MEDNAX, Inc.
- Gryphon Partners and Water’s Edge Dermatology in its merger with Riverchase Dermatology
- GlaxoSmithKline in its $12.7 billion joint venture with Pfizer to combine their consumer health businesses
- Teva Pharmaceuticals, in its $40 billion acquisition of Allergan’s generics business, securing clearance with the largest and most complex pharmaceutical divestiture in FTC history and also in Teva’s acquisition of Allergan’s ANDA distribution business
- Lifewatch AG in its sale to BioTelemetry, Inc. for $280 million, combining two leaders in wireless cardiac monitoring technology
- Swander Pace Capital in its sale of Insight Pharmaceuticals to Prestige Brands
- Akorn, Inc. in its acquisition of VersaPharm
- Danaher in its $2.2 billion acquisition of Nobel BioCare
- Community Health Systems in its $3.6 billion acquisition of HMA to create the nation's largest for-profit hospital network
- Spectrum Pharmaceuticals in its acquisition of Allos Therapeutics
Consumer Products and Services
- Spectrum Brands in its $2 billion carve-out sale of its global consumer battery business to Energizer
- Vestar Capital, in the sale of Sun Products (all®, Sun®, Surf®, and Wisk® detergents) to Henkel, creating the second largest seller of detergents in the U.S.
- Leap Wireless in its $4 billion acquisition by AT&T, which was cleared without a remedy after an extensive Second Request investigation
- 3G Capital, in its partnership with Berkshire Hathaway to acquire H.J. Heinz for $28 billion
- Avis Budget Group, in its acquisitions of Zipcar and Payless and in FTC efforts relating to its proposed merger with Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group
- Sara Lee Corporation in its sale of Sara Lee’s bakery division to Bimbo Bakeries
Other
- Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) in its $12.5 billion sale to BlackRock
- Madison Dearborn Partners in its sale of Linquest, a leader in National Security space systems and technology solutions for the defense and intelligence communities, to KBR
- Gryphon Partners in its sale of Hepaco, LLC to Clean Harbors, Inc.
- The Heritage Group in its sale of Heritage Environmental Services to EQT Infrastructure
- Warburg Pincus on a merger between BradyIFS and Envoy Solutions
- Greenbriar Equity Group in the sale of its portfolio company DART Aerospace to TransDigm Group
- Charter Communications in its formation of a 50/50 operating platform partnership with Comcast Corporation
- Boeing Corporation in its $3.2 billion acquisition of aerospace parts distributor KLX Inc.
- Wyndham Worldwide in its $1.95 billion acquisition of La Quinta’s hotel and franchise management business
- EQ in its $465 million sale to US Ecology
- Boise Cascade in its acquisition of wood products production facilities from Georgia Pacific
- Danaher Corporation in its $13.8 billion acquisition of Pall Corporation
- Roundy’s Inc. in its $800 million sale to Kroger Co.
- Clear Channel Outdoor in its sales of assets of its Americas Outdoor segment in certain non-strategic outdoor markets
- Flying J in its acquisition by Pilot Travel Centers
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Recognition
Recognized in Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Litigators,” 2024–2025
Recognized as a “Future Leader,” by Who’s Who Legal, 2021
Recognized in The Legal 500 U.S.
- Next Generation Lawyer for Antitrust: Merger Control, 2017–2024
- Antitrust: Merger Control, 2015
- Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions, 2015
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2009District of Columbia
- 2008Illinois
Education
- University of Chicago Law SchoolJ.D.with Honors2008Articles Editor, Legal Forum
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyS.B., Political Science2000