Neely guides leading companies in the United States and around the world through merger review and clearance processes, and develops creative strategies for clients contemplating M&A transactions to reduce their antitrust risk. She provides counseling and compliance training on a wide variety of antitrust issues, with particularly significant experience advising companies in the retail, energy, and health care sectors. Neely is co-chair of Winston’s Antitrust/Competition Transactions Practice and the Washington, D.C. Office Chair of the Winston & Strawn Women’s Leadership Initiative.
Neely focuses her practice on antitrust and competition matters. She has steered hundreds of transactions through the U.S. and global merger-control review process and regularly represents clients in merger and other antitrust investigations conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and state attorneys general (AGs), as well as in Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) matters. Neely uses her deep experience to counsel clients on a variety of antitrust issues, including contracting practices, distribution restrictions, the formation and operation of joint ventures, trade association activities, information exchanges, and pricing practices. She also advises clients in developing, implementing, and enforcing global antitrust compliance programs.