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2026 Transaction Advisors Institute M&A Conference San Francisco

Jenn Mellott will chair the panel entitled “Aligning with the Regulatory Landscape” where she will be joined by Chris Ries, Director and Associate General Counsel, Global Operations and Competition Law at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Sarretta McDonough, Chief Regulatory Counsel, Global Antitrust and International Trade at Intel.

They will discuss how HSR requirements are reshaping the corporate M&A process, the current best practices for engaging with antitrust agencies, and which jurisdictions are significantly increasing their review processes.

Aly Love will chair the panel entitled “Streamlining Negotiations and Risk Allocation” where she will be joined by Yifat Koren-Dahan, Managing Director, General Counsel at CIM Group, Barnaby Gibson, Senior Director, Legal M&A at ServiceNow, and Neela Morrison, Senior Counsel M&A at Google.

They will discuss how to optimize the balance of warranties, indemnities and other risk allocation mechanisms, the current market standard for closing conditions, and how the break fees and other dispute resolution provisions are changing.

More information on the agenda and how to register can be found here.

Date
Mar 18, 2026 - Mar 19, 2026
Time
12:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Location
Wharton, San Francisco
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Jenn MellottOffice Managing Partner, Washington, DC
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Aly LovePartner, Co-Head of US Technology and Life Sciences M&A
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