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Megan Gerking Featured as Speaker at US SIF Forum 2026

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Morrison Foerster is proud to participate in <a href="https://www.ussif.org/" target="_blank">US Sustainable Investment Forum’s</a> 14th Annual FORUM 2026, the leading U.S. conference for sustainable investing professionals. The annual forum convenes leaders from across the capital markets ecosystem—including investment managers, asset owners, financial institutions, policymakers, corporate leaders, and advisors—to exchange ideas, address emerging challenges, and explore the trends shaping the future of sustainable finance.This year’s theme, “Investing Above the Noise,” reflects the sustainable investing community’s continued focus on long-term value creation amid a rapidly evolving market, regulatory, and geopolitical environment. Through thought-provoking discussions and insights from industry leaders, FORUM 2026 will equip attendees with practical perspectives on the opportunities and challenges influencing the future of sustainable investing.Morrison Foerster partner Megan Gerking will speak on the panel “Navigating Legal Issues Facing Sustainable Finance.” Megan’s participation marks her second consecutive year speaking at the forum, reflecting the firm’s continued engagement with the legal, regulatory, and business issues shaping sustainable finance.Learn more about the <a href="https://web.cvent.com/event/e6c2819f-b8d1-4861-bc7c-21a6e47c6c66/summary" target="_blank">event</a>.<hr>

Megan Gerking Featured as Speaker at US SIF Forum 2026

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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.<h4>Representative Experience</h4><h5>Criminal and Civil Antitrust Investigations</h5><ul><li>Achieved non-prosecution protection for two healthcare companies in separate DOJ Antitrust Division criminal investigations; represented company witnesses at trial.</li><li>Obtained non-prosecution protection for a senior executive in criminal investigation into no-poach agreements in defense sector; executive testified at the criminal trial.</li><li>Completed a non-prosecution agreement for a senior executive in a DOJ criminal investigation into market allocation and bid rigging of generic drugs.</li><li>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.</li><li>Represented a technology company in a Federal Trade Commission monopolization investigation.</li><li>Defended a private equity fund in a state AG investigation.</li><li>Represented an energy company in a criminal investigation.</li><li>Counseled a senior executive on an international criminal cartel investigation.</li><li>Obtained a non-prosecution agreement for a senior executive in a criminal investigation into conduct related to the hiring of employees.</li></ul><h5>Antitrust Merger Review</h5><ul><li>Obtained merger clearance for a telecommunications company in connection with a $20 billion acquisition, which closed in 2026.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>Advised and obtained merger clearances for Grant Thornton LLP in connection with the sale of its Public Sector Advisory practice to Guidehouse.</li><li>Represented Divvy, a leader in spend management, in its $2.5 billion stock and cash sale to Bill.com. </li><li>Supported NTT, a leading IT infrastructure and services company, in its $330 million cash sale of WhiteHat Security to Synopsys, Inc.</li><li>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.</li><li>Assisted The Walt Disney Co. in its $71 billion acquisition of certain businesses from 21st Century Fox.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li></ul><h5>Antitrust Litigation</h5><ul><li>Representing Beeline Loans in federal antitrust litigation alleging price fixing and information sharing in connection with use of Optimal Blue software.</li><li>Defending Otter Tail Corp. and its subsidiaries in federal antitrust litigation alleging price fixing and information sharing through third-party market newsletter.</li><li>Supporting Verizon Communications in federal antitrust litigation alleging antitrust violations brought by VoIP-Pal.</li><li>Defending BJMC Global in federal antitrust litigation alleging non-solicitation agreements and wage fixing in violation of antitrust laws.</li><li>Representing Glenmark Pharmaceuticals in a federal antitrust multidistrict litigation alleging price fixing and market allocation of generic drugs by manufacturers of generic drugs.</li><li>Assisting Nexstar Media Group, America’s largest local television and media company, in federal antitrust litigation alleging price fixing in television advertising.</li><li>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.</li></ul>

Megan Gerking Featured as Speaker at US SIF Forum 2026

24 Jun 2026 - 26 Jun 2026