Overview
Margaret (Meg) A. Gibson focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and private fund formations. She advises clients on transactional, structural, firm-related, succession planning and portfolio matters. She has represented numerous high-profile private equity firms and multinational companies across industries on a variety of large and complex transactions and other matters.
Meg’s work has earned her praise from clients and professional publications alike. Throughout her career she has been recognized by IFLR1000 US, Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides: The World’s Leading Lawyers Chosen by Their Peers, Legal 500 US, Crain’s Chicago Business, and Women in Business, to name a few.
Recognitions
- IFLR1000, Private Equity and Mergers and Acquisitions, Notable Practitioner, 2019 – 2024
- Law Bulletin Media, Securities & Venture Capital, Leading Lawyer
- Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides: The World’s Leading Lawyers Chosen by Their Peers, Banking, Finance and Transactional: Private Equity, 2012 – 2017
- Crain’s Most Influential Women Lawyers in Chicago, 2017
- Legal 500 US, 2007, 2012 – 2014
- Illinois Super Lawyers, Mergers and Acquisitions, 2005 – 2006, 2008 – 2013
Community
- Northwestern Law Board, member
- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Keystone Board Member
- University of Michigan, Dean’s Advisory Council, member
Credentials
Education
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, JD, cum laude, 1987
University of Michigan, BA, with class honors, 1984
Admissions
Illinois
New York
