Valarie Ney is a partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP in Washington, DC, whose practice centers on mergers and acquisitions along with cross-border, securities, and corporate governance matters. She works across the full range of M&A structures — private company acquisitions and dispositions, auctions, joint ventures, licensing transactions, public company mergers and spin-offs, going private transactions, special committee representations, and tender offers — and practices across industries that include government contracting, technology, healthcare, pharmaceutical, energy, and manufacturing. Her governance work covers disclosure, compliance, and governance questions arising under SEC regulations, stock exchange rules, and state corporate law.