Biography
Carla represents clients before the U.S. antitrust agencies, and has significant experience in government investigations before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), as well as experience with administrative, Part III litigation before the FTC. Her experience encompasses a wide-range of industries, including private equity, consumer products, construction materials, oil and related exploration products and services, veterinary clinics, gasoline, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, health care, energy, defense, and sports teams.
Carla is active in leadership of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section, and is currently serving as Co-Chair of Committee Operations and a member of the Nominating Committee, and most recently served as Co-Chair of the Mergers & Acquisitions Committee. Carla has been recommended by The Legal 500 as an antitrust attorney that “does an excellent job,” and selected for inclusion in the Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers-2018-2020, and the Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers-Rising Stars Edition 2013-2015.
Key Representations*
- Abbott in its pending ~$21B acquisition of Exact Sciences
- Advent International in numerous deals including:
- In its $800M sale of Lanteris Space Systems to Intuitive Machines
- with Xplor Technologies in its merger with Clubessential Holdings
- In its acquisition of Coherent’s aerospace and defense business
- In its acquisition of Sauer Brands
- In its acquisition of LayerZero Power Systems
- Cove Hill Partners in several deals including:
- In its $300M investment in Vantaca
- In its Strategic Investment in Swiftly
- MGM Resorts in the pending $546M sale of MGM Northfield Park to Clairvest Group
- Consortium led by Advent and Corvex in take private of Heidrick & Struggles
- PSG in several transactions including:
- In the sale of Chatmeter to Alchemer
- In its strategic growth investment in Benchmark Analytics
- Remedy Meds on its acquisition of Thirty Madison
- GHK Capital Partners in its acquisition of Rogers Building Solutions
- Iodine Software in $1.25B sale to Waystar
- TruArc Partners in several deals including:
- In the sale of Ideal Tridon Group to Nautic Partners
- In its investment in DMI Personal Care
- Providence Equity Partners in several transactions including:
- In the pending acquisition by 365 Retail Markets of Cantaloupe
- In the sale of TAIT to the Private Equity business at Goldman Sachs Alternatives
- TPG in its acquisition of Peppertree Capital Management
- Sunoco LP in its $9.1B acquisition of Parkland Corporation
- Stone Ridge in its acquisition of Wincoram
- H.I.G. Capital and its affiliate in the affiliate’s take-private acquisition of Quisitive Technology Solutions
- DT Midstream, Inc in its $1.2 Billion Acquisition of three FERC-regulated natural gas transmission pipelines from ONEOK, Inc.
- Aterian Investment Partners in the acquisition by one of its affiliates of Outlook Group
- Nexa Equity and its portfolio company Autura, in Autura’s merger with Traxero, a portfolio company of Radian Capital
- Precinmac (portfolio company of Bain Capital and Pine Island Capital Partners) in its sale
- Siete Foods and Stripes in the sale of Siete to PepsiCo for $1.2 billion
- Blue Star Innovation Partners in its partnership agreement with Ledger Run
- Pacific Avenue Capital Partners in its acquisition of Sogefi’s filtration business
- General Atlantic’s BeyondNetZero Fund on its investment in GRESB
- Arcosa, Inc. in its $180 million acquisition of Ameron Pole Products
- Cove Hill Partners in its strategic investment in Incident IQ
- Sunoco LP in its $7.3B acquisition of NuStar
- Digital Realty, Inc. in a successful resolution of relationship with Cyxtera
- Cedar Fair, L.P. in its $8B merger with Six Flags
- Securing U.S. antitrust clearance for Forterra, Inc. in its sale to Quikrete
*includes matters handled prior to joining Weil