Megan E. Gerking

Megan E. Gerking
Partner

2100 L Street, NW

Washington, D.C. 20037

mgerking@mofo.com

(202) 887-6948

BAR ADMISSIONS

California

District of Columbia

GOVERNMENT SERVICE

U.S. Department of Justice

  • Antitrust Division, Washington Criminal I, Trial Attorney

CLERKSHIPS

Hon. James E. Baker, U.S. Court of Appeals, Armed Forces

EDUCATION

University of Michigan, B.A.

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D.

Megan is a former trial attorney with the DOJ’s Antitrust Division. At Morrison Foerster, she is a partner in the Antitrust Group advising clients on their most complex and high-stakes competition matters. Her practice focuses on government investigations, merger reviews, strategic transactions, and civil antitrust litigation, particularly where enforcement, compliance, and global antitrust and regulatory risk intersect.

Megan regularly counsels clients on antitrust risks arising from industry collaborations, trade associations, consortia, and other joint activities, drawing on her firsthand experience investigating and prosecuting cartel conduct. While at the Antitrust Division, Megan investigated and prosecuted federal antitrust violations, including international cartel matters involving price fixing, bid rigging, and market allocation. She now leverages that experience to help clients design, implement, and defend antitrust compliance programs, and she routinely delivers antitrust training for executives and employees.

Megan also maintains a robust merger practice, advising clients at every stage of the merger review process. She develops transaction strategies, assesses and manages obligations under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (“HSR Act”), and represents clients before antitrust authorities in the United States and abroad. Megan regularly represents third parties in agency reviews of transactions, including at trial.

Her experience spans a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, media, technology and software, financial services, consumer products, aviation, higher education, manufacturing, agriculture, and life sciences. While at the Antitrust Division, Megan prosecuted the first individual ever extradited to the United States on an antitrust charge and earned the Assistant Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service for her work investigating and prosecuting international automotive parts cartels. She was also awarded the DOJ’s Outstanding Mentor Award by the Attorney General. 

Megan has been widely recognized by leading publications including Chambers, Global Competition Review, Bloomberg, The American Lawyer, and others. She has served as a non-governmental advisor to the International Competition Network (ICN) and has spoken at the ICN Cartel Workshop in Lisbon, Portugal. Megan is an editor of The Antitrust Source, the ABA’s online antitrust magazine, and is a member of Morrison Foerster’s global Sustainability + Corporate Responsibility Group. She also serves on the board of directors of the U.S. Sustainable Investment Forum (SIF).

Before attending law school, Megan worked in the DOJ’s Office of Public Affairs, where she assisted the Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust with media strategy and served as a national spokesperson. She also worked as a paralegal in the Antitrust Division, supporting trial teams in criminal antitrust prosecutions.

Representative Experience

Criminal and Civil Antitrust Investigations
  • Achieved non-prosecution protection for two healthcare companies in separate DOJ Antitrust Division criminal investigations; represented company witnesses at trial.

  • Obtained non-prosecution protection for a senior executive in criminal investigation into no-poach agreements in defense sector; executive testified at the criminal trial.

  • Completed a non-prosecution agreement for a senior executive in a DOJ criminal investigation into market allocation and bid rigging of generic drugs.

  • Regularly advises senior executives on DOJ antitrust criminal investigations involving allegations of price fixing, market and customer allocation, and bid rigging, and obtained non-prosecution protection for several individuals.

  • Represented a technology company in a Federal Trade Commission monopolization investigation.

  • Defended a private equity fund in a state AG investigation.

  • Represented an energy company in a criminal investigation.

  • Counseled a senior executive on an international criminal cartel investigation.

  • Obtained a non-prosecution agreement for a senior executive in a criminal investigation into conduct related to the hiring of employees.

Antitrust Merger Review
  • Obtained merger clearance for a telecommunications company in connection with a $20 billion acquisition, which closed in 2026.
  • Navigated ShowingTime Inc., a leading real estate showing management and market stats technology provider, through an extended review by the Federal Trade Commission of its $500 million vertical acquisition by Zillow Group.
  • Delivered merger clearances for Unity Technologies Corp. in connection with an asset carve-out acquisition from Weta Digital of certain assets, including its audiovisual effects development and management software tools, for a purchase price of $1.625 billion.
  • Advised and obtained merger clearances for Grant Thornton LLP in connection with the sale of its Public Sector Advisory practice to Guidehouse.
  • Represented Divvy, a leader in spend management, in its $2.5 billion stock and cash sale to Bill.com. 
  • Supported NTT, a leading IT infrastructure and services company, in its $330 million cash sale of WhiteHat Security to Synopsys, Inc.
  • Represented Continental Building Products, a North American leader in wallboard and joint compound materials, in negotiations to secure antitrust approvals for its sale to Saint-Gobain. The transaction cleared without a second request investigation.
  • Assisted The Walt Disney Co. in its $71 billion acquisition of certain businesses from 21st Century Fox.
  • Represented Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier in connection with the worldwide antitrust clearance of its sale of a controlling interest in the “C Series” line of commercial passenger jets to Airbus. The transaction cleared without any second-phase reviews.
  • Regularly assisting third parties in responding to DOJ and FTC outreach and Civil Investigative Demands in connection with merger reviews, and corporate clients with antitrust issues in complex transactions, including collaborations, joint ventures, acquisitions, and mergers.
Antitrust Litigation
  • Representing Beeline Loans in federal antitrust litigation alleging price fixing and information sharing in connection with use of Optimal Blue software.
  • Defending Otter Tail Corp. and its subsidiaries in federal antitrust litigation alleging price fixing and information sharing through third-party market newsletter.
  • Supporting Verizon Communications in federal antitrust litigation alleging antitrust violations brought by VoIP-Pal.
  • Defending BJMC Global in federal antitrust litigation alleging non-solicitation agreements and wage fixing in violation of antitrust laws.
  • Representing Glenmark Pharmaceuticals in a federal antitrust multidistrict litigation alleging price fixing and market allocation of generic drugs by manufacturers of generic drugs.
  • Assisting Nexstar Media Group, America’s largest local television and media company, in federal antitrust litigation alleging price fixing in television advertising.
  • Counseled a leading international financial institution in multiple, sprawling class action lawsuits alleging a global conspiracy by some of the world’s largest banks to manipulate the interbank offer rate (IBOR) benchmark for multiple currencies.

Rankings

Up and Coming in District of Columbia: Antitrust

Chambers USA 2024–2025

Antitrust: Cartel (Next Generation Partner)

The Legal 500 US 2022–2025

Antitrust: Cartel

The Legal 500 US 2019–2021

Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense

The Legal 500 US 2021, 2023–2025

Antitrust: Merger Control

The Legal 500 US 2019, 2021–2025

Government: State Attorneys General

The Legal 500 US 2025

Future Star, District of Columbia

Benchmark Litigation USA 2026

Competition Future Leaders

Lexology Index 2025

Antitrust Law (Ones to Watch)

Best Lawyers in America 2024–2026

Criminal Defense: White Collar (One to Watch)

Best Lawyers in America 2025

Women in Antitrust

Global Competition Review 2021, 2025

40 Under 40

Global Competition Review 2024

40 Under 40

Bloomberg Law 2022

Young Lawyer of the Year (Finalist)

The American Lawyer 2022

Rising Stars

The National Law Journal 2021

Top Author

JD Supra Readers’ Choice Awards 2023