Jennifer L. Keating

Jennifer Keating represents clients in a wide range of transactions and in general corporate law matters. Her transactional practice is focused on domestic and cross-border stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, mergers, joint ventures and minority investments. She also advises clients in strategic commercial matters such as license and technology agreements, co-development agreements, and other collaborative arrangements. Jennifer works with clients in a number of industries, including technology, financial services, chemicals, manufacturing, consumer products and agribusiness.

Jennifer joined Mayer Brown in 1999 and is a member of the firm’s global chemicals industry group. She previously served as co-leader of the firm’s Chicago Corporate & Securities practice. Prior to joining Mayer Brown, Jennifer served as law clerk to the Honorable James B. Loken of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Jennifer is ranked as a leading Corporate/M&A lawyer in Chambers USA and has been recognized by The Deal as one of its “Top Women in Dealmaking”.

• Represented Wolters Kluwer in various matters, including its $415 million acquisition of Registered Agent Solutions, Inc., its acquisition of Vanguard Software Corporation, a global provider of cloud-based integrated business planning solutions, its acquisition of eOriginal, a leading provider of cloud-based digital lending software, and the sale of its Corsearch trademark solutions business to Audax Private Equity.
• Represented Hemlock Semiconductor in the acquisition of DuPont's trichlorosilanes (TCS) business, and the acquisition by Corning of DuPont's equity interest in Hemlock, for $725 million.
• Represented Neogen Corporation in the acquisition of animal genetic testing company Genetic Veterinary Sciences, Inc.
• Represented CNH Industrial in its acquisition of AgDNA, a leader in farm information management systems, and its acquisition of ATI Inc., a global manufacturer of track systems for high-power tractors and combines, and its minority investment in Monarch Tractor, a US-based agricultural technology company.

• The University of Chicago Law School, JD, with honors
  Topic Access Editor, The University of Chicago Law Review
• Cornell University, BA

• Illinois