Aaron J. Meyers is Co-Leader of Cleary’s Energy, Industrials & 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).

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Industrials, Manufacturing, and Chemicals

  • 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.

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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.

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