Maeve provides strategic counsel and communications support to companies across industries in a broad range of special situations and high-profile events, including mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism defense, restructurings and bankruptcies, leadership changes, litigation and crisis management. She also supports companies with ongoing investor and public relations, media relations and corporate communications matters. Her areas of expertise include:

Mergers & Acquisitions

She has advised on a variety of transaction types, including friendly and contested, go-private and spin-off. Select assignments include: Kansas City Southern in its acquisition by Canadian Pacific and unsolicited offer from Canadian National; 3M in the spin-off of its Food Safety business and merger with NEOGEN; Exelon Corporation in its separation of Constellation; Johnson & Johnson in its spinoff of Kenvue; Argo in its sale to Brookfield Reinsurance; Orthofix Medical in its merger with SeaSpine; Aptiv in its acquisition of Wind River; HollyFrontier and its merger with Sinclair Oil; Rio Tinto in its acquisition of Turquoise Hill; Bristol Myers Squibb in its acquisition of Turning Point Therapeutics; Cantel Medical in its acquisition by STERIS; Protective Insurance in its sale to Progressive; OmniMax in its sale to Strategic Value Partners; and a number of go-private transactions, including Coupa Software in its sale to Thoma Bravo; Citrix in its sale to Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital; At Home in its sale to H&F; CorePoint Lodging in its sale to Highgate and Cerberus Capital Management; Bottomline in its sale to Thoma Bravo; New Relic in its sale to Francisco Partners and TPG; Quotient in its sale to Neptune Retail Solutions and Charlesbank Capital Partners; Forterra in its sale to Quikrete Holdings; South Jersey Industries in its sale to Infrastructure Investments Fund; Monmouth Real Estate in its sale to Industrial Logistics Properties Trust; and Tech Data in its sale to Apollo.

Shareholder Activism

She has supported companies in public and private activist situations opposite some of the most notable activist investors, including Starboard Value, Elliott, JANA, HG Vora, Land & Buildings, Blackwells Capital, Sarissa, Engaged Capital, Third Point, Voce Capital, Barington and Soroban Capital. 

Restructuring & Bankruptcy

She has assisted companies involved in out-of-court financial restructurings and in-court Chapter 11 reorganizations. Select assignments include: JCPenney, Rite Aid, Ascena Retail, Express, Frontier Communications, High Ridge Brands, EP Energy, Windstream, Libbey Glass, Air Methods, Cyxtera, Hornblower and Mallinckrodt, among others.

Crisis and Special Situation Communications

She has experience supporting clients with crisis preparedness and responses related to a range of issues including civil and criminal litigation, reputational attacks, misconduct allegations, ethical violations, regulatory inquiries and SEC investigations, product recalls, short attack campaigns, data breaches and other cybersecurity incidents, corporate reorganizations, facility closures, workforce reductions and unplanned leadership changes.

Investor Relations & Public Relations

She works with clients to develop and enhance their overall communications strategy, assisting with corporate positioning and messaging, quarterly earnings preparation, thought leadership and profile-raising opportunities, investor conferences, analyst days, annual shareholder meetings and internal employee communications. Select clients have included 3M, American Airlines, Aptiv, Grainger, Host Hotels & Resorts, Jacobs, Lockheed Martin, Lowe’s, Mastercard, Motorola Solutions, Martin Marietta, Norfolk Southern, Amneal Pharmaceuticals, PENN Entertainment and Teladoc.

Maeve joined Joele Frank in 2019. She earned a B.A. in Economics and Art History from the University of Virginia.