Aaron J. Meyers
Partner
“Aaron is extremely approachable and friendly, with an exceptional ability to problem-solve.”
Chambers USA
"Aaron is commercially driven; he wisely protects the client from risk and exposures and has deep technical knowledge."
Chambers USA
Aaron J. Meyers is Co-Leader of Cleary Gottlieb’s Industrials and Mining Group.
His practice focuses on corporate and financial transactions, particularly public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, cross-border deals, carve-outs, joint ventures, and other transformative transactions.
Aaron holds significant experience representing companies across regions worldwide within a variety of sectors, including mining and metals, energy and renewables, industrials and manufacturing, chemicals, and technology.
He has been recognized as a leading advisor by numerous industry publications and directories, such as Chambers Global, Chambers USA, IFLR 1000, Law360, and BTI Consulting Group.
Aaron joined the firm in 2009 and became a partner in 2017.
Notable Experience
Energy, Mining, Metals, and Infrastructure
Alphabet in its $4.75 billion acquisition of Intersect Power.
Vale in numerous transactions, including:
- its $26 billion strategic partnership with Manara Minerals, a joint venture between Ma’aden and PIF, pursuant to which Manara Minerals invested in Vale’s energy transition metals business.
- the $2.5 billion sale of its fertilizer business and acquisition of a minority interest in The Mosaic Company.
ENGIE in the sale of ENGIE Impact, the utility expense and data management, energy procurement, and sustainability advising arm of ENGIE, to Arcadia.
Critical Metals in its pending $835 million acquisition of European Lithium via two interdependent schemes of arrangement.
Eni in numerous renewable energy transactions, including:
- its $70 million minority equity investment in Nouveau Monde Graphite.
- its strategic agreement with Falck Renewables for the joint development of renewable energy projects.
Wafra in its $115 million acquisition of Hawthorne, alongside its co-acquirer, NOVA Infrastructure.
Asahi Kasei in its $2.2 billion acquisition of the energy storage business of Polypore International, and $1 billion sale of Polypore’s separations media to 3M.
Coastal Energy Co. in its C$2.3 billion sale to Compañia Española de Petroleos (CEPSA).
Industrials, Manufacturing, and Chemicals
CMA CGM in its pending $1.4 billion acquisition of FedEx Supply Chain, a subsidiary of FedEx.
Solventum in the $4 billion sale of its purification and filtration business to Thermo Fisher Scientific.
3M in numerous transactions, including:
- its $6.7 billion acquisition of Acelity.
- its $2 billion acquisition of Scott Safety.
- its $1 billion acquisition of M*Modal’s technology business.
- the $900 million sale of its Communication Markets Division to Corning.
- the $650 million sale of its drug delivery business to Altaris Capital Partners.
- the $230 million sale of its gas and flame detection business to Teledyne.
- the sale of its dental local anesthetics business to Pierrel.
Apogee Enterprises in its $240 million acquisition of UW Solutions, a Heartwood Partners portfolio company.
ABB in its cable tray joint venture with Niedax and its acquisition of Siemens’ low voltage NEMA motor business.
Komatsu in its acquisition of American Battery Solutions.
Pacific Woodtech, a subsidiary of ITOCHU, in its acquisition of Louisiana-Pacific’s engineered wood products business.
Langan in the sale of a minority interest to TowerBrook Capital Partners.
ITOCHU International in its acquisition of the fence design and manufacturing business of Midwest Tube Mills.
Clariant in its proposed all-stock merger-of-equals with Huntsman to create a combined company with an enterprise value of approximately $20 billion.
OCI in its proposed $8 billion combination with CF Industries.
Technology And Other Select Transactions
Alphabet and Google in numerous transactions, including:
- Google in its $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit.
- Google in its $1.1 billion smartphone-related agreement with HTC.
- Google in its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility and subsequent $2.9 billion sale of Motorola Mobility’s mobile devices business to Lenovo.
- Google in its acquisitions of Waze, Raxium, and bebop.
- Google in its investment in Univision.
- Alphabet in connection with minority investments in Waymo and Verily Life Sciences.
OpenText in numerous transactions, including:
- its $1.62 billion acquisition of Dell EMC’s Enterprise Content Division.
- its tender offer to acquire Zix Corporation.
- its tender offer to acquire Guidance Software.
NetScout in its acquisition of the distributed denial of service (DDoS) business of DigiCert.
Gameloft in its acquisition of FreshPlanet.
Western Digital in its $19 billion acquisition of SanDisk.
Warburg Pincus in numerous transactions, including:
- the sale of Hygiena to EW Group.
- its acquisitions of TRC Companies, FlexXray, G.A. Foods, Wencor Group, Electronic Funds Source, Crossmark, and Endurance International Group.
- the acquisition by its portfolio company, Endurance International Group, of Intuit’s website business.
TRAC Intermodal, a portfolio company of Fortress Investment Group, in the sale of its domestic chassis fleet to Direct ChassisLink.
Groupe Acticall in its $830 million acquisition of SITEL Worldwide.
Family Dollar Stores in the sale to Dollar Tree for a combination of cash and stock worth $9.3 billion, and the successful rejection of Dollar General’s hostile tender offer and Elliott Management’s threatened proxy contest.
TPG in its acquisition and subsequent $2 billion sale to Rite Aid of Envision Pharmaceutical.
Publications
- “The Lithium Triangle: Challenges and Opportunities for Latin America,” Cleary Gottlieb Alert Memorandum, September 25, 2023
- “Communicating Policy to Manage Risks More Effectively,” Risk & Compliance, January-March 2020
- “More Reminders that ‘Boilerplate’ Matters,” Deal Lawyers, March-April 2016.
- “Rights Plans and Proxy Contests: Chancery Court Denies Activist’s Motion to Enjoin Sotheby’s Shareholder Meeting,” Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, May 5, 2014.
Events
September 18, 2025
Transaction Advisors M&A Conference at Cornell Tech New York