For over a decade Meaghan has provided strategic communications counsel to public and non-public companies involved in a wide range of ongoing and special situations, including transactions, bankruptcies and restructurings, shareholder activism and IPOs. Her areas of expertise include:- Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Distressed M&A: She has extensive expertise advising companies involved in out-of-court and in-court restructurings. Notable situations include Barneys New York; Caesars Entertainment Operating Company; CIT Group; David’s Bridal; Delphi Automotive; Edison Mission Energy; Energy XXI; EPE Energy; Frontier Communications; FTX; JCPenney; LINN Energy; LSC Communications; PG&E; Sanchez Energy; Sabine Oil & Gas; TerraForm Power & Global; Toys“R”Us; and Windstream.- Mergers & Acquisitions: She advises U.S. and international companies, across sectors, on communications issues that arise during friendly and contested transactions. Recent assignments include advising Teva on its unsolicited proposal for Mylan; Delphi on the acquisitions of Unwired Technology and Antaya Technologies; Lorillard on its pending acquisition by Reynolds American; and Edison Mission Energy on its acquisition by NRG Energy.- Real Estate: She advises numerous clients in the real estate sector involved in various types of transactions and situations, including, Glimcher Realty Trust on its merger with Washington Prime Group; Inland American on its spin off a large portion of its lodging portfolio into a standalone, publicly traded company; American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust on the sale to Ventas and Cole Real Estate in its acquisition by American Realty Capital Properties.- Select shareholder activism and proxy contests include Associated Estates (Land & Buildings); Buffalo Wild Wings (Marcato Capital); Cliffs Natural Resources (Casablanca Capital); Capital Senior Living (Red Alder); CSX (TCI & 3G); Forest City (Starboard and Scopia Capital); Hunstman Corporation (Starboard); Illinois Tool Works (Relational); Iron Mountain (Elliott); Pennsylvania REIT (Land & Buildings); Radian (Clinton Group); RLJ Lodging Trust (Land & Buildings);Taubman (Land & Buildings); Vitamin Shoppe (Shah Capital and Vintage Capital).
Listed skills include Restructuring, Mergers And Acquisitions, Strategic Communications, Media Relations, and 12 others.