Meagan Pace

Meagan Pace

Associate
About

Meagan Pace has a broad-based practice in commercial litigation, including general corporate, securities, and mergers and acquisitions litigation. She has represented M&A transaction liability insurers in disputes arising under representations and warranties insurance, financial institutions in regulatory arbitrations, defendants in actions brought by the federal government, corporations against allegations of federal securities violations and fiduciary duty allegations, and shareholders in corporate governance matters. Meagan assists in representing clients throughout all phases of litigation, arbitration, and has experience representing clients in internal corporate investigations and compliance matters.

Meagan also represents the Baltimore Office as a delegate of DLA Piper’s Leadership Alliance for Women (“LAW”).

Bar admissionsMaryland
CourtsUnited States District Court for the District of Maryland

EXPERIENCE

  • Obtained a US$250 million settlement in December 2021 on behalf of a family group of minority stockholders in a statutory corporate dissolution and stockholder oppression action against the controlling majority stockholders of a privately held corporation in Baltimore County, Maryland Circuit Court
  • Obtained dismissal in March 2020 of two securities actions filed against major financial institution in Maryland and Delaware federal courts, alleging that the company failed to disclose material information in connection with a merger with another financial institution
  • Obtained favorable outcome of less than 10% of the claim for Representations and Warranties Insurer in arbitration in July 2022, because on allegations of breaches of financial statement and regulatory compliance representations and warranties
Education
  • JD, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, magna cum laude
    Notes and Comments Editor, Maryland Law Review
  • BS, Accounting, University of Maryland, College Park

Prior Experience

Prior to joining DLA Piper, Meagan was a Certified Public Accountant at a Big Four accounting firm.

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Phone

+1 410 580 4109
(Work, Baltimore (Mount Washington))