Alexis Brown-Reilly

Primary Focus & Experience

Ms. Brown-Reilly focuses her practice on all aspects of antitrust law, including merger and non-merger investigations, counseling, litigation, Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) and international merger control issues. She represents clients on complex transactions before the DOJ and FTC, as well as international antitrust and competition authorities. Ms. Brown-Reilly has extensive experience representing private equity clients and their portfolio companies, as well as large corporate clients, across a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, technology, information management, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, defense, education, consumer products and financial services. Her representations include:

• The State of California on its antitrust lawsuit challenging Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery
• AMSURG on its $3.9 billion sale to Ascension
• Veritas Capital on its acquisition of BGIS from CCMP Capital Advisors and Alberta Investment Management Corporation
• SLB on its acquisition of S&P’s geoscience and petroleum engineering software business
• Grain Management on its $2.9 billion acquisition of spectrum assets from T-Mobile
• H&E on its $5.3 billion sale to Herc
• Veritas Capital on its $2.45 billion acquisition of NCR Voyix Corporation’s Digital Banking business (now known as Candescent)
• Advent International on its $6.4 billion acquisition of Maxar Technologies*
• TPG on its $2.7 billion acquisition of Angelo Gordon*
• Kainos Capital on its $950 million sale of Olde Thompson to Olam*
• Advent International on its $2.8 billion sale of Cobham Mission Systems to Eaton Corporation*
• Iron Mountain on its $2.6 billion acquisition of Recall*

Ms. Brown-Reilly is a former trial attorney at the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, where she focused on telecommunications matters. She led merger investigations and was an integral team member of key Division matters. She also counseled various sections on key aspects of their ongoing matters as part of her detail working for the Director of Civil Enforcement. Her experience included:

• AT&T/Time Warner merger investigation and litigation
• T-Mobile/Sprint merger investigation
• CenturyLink/Level 3 merger investigation

Recognition & Accomplishments

Ms. Brown-Reilly was awarded the Assistant Attorney General Award in 2018 and 2019 for her work on key Division matters. She also previously worked as an honors paralegal in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, where she assisted on merger and non-merger investigations and received an Official Commendation for Meritorious Service for her work on the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Commentary on the Horizontal Merger Guidelines.

She received her J.D. from The George Washington University Law School, where she served as articles editor for The George Washington International Law Review. She earned her B.A., summa cum laude, from Virginia Tech, where she was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa.

*Representation occurred prior to joining Milbank.