Amy W Ray

Amy Ray represents clients in high-profile U.S. and international antitrust matters. She focuses on transactions, litigation, investigations, and counseling with a competition nexus.

• Engagements

  • U.S. v. Microsoft and N.Y. v. Microsoft, implementing the consent decree resulting from the landmark antitrust suit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and twenty state attorneys general alleging antitrust violations under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act.
  • Microsoft in dismissing federal antitrust and state law counts via Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in Marshall’s Locksmith Service, Inc., v. Google. This was affirmed by the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.  
  • The Royal Bank of Scotland in In re Credit Default Swaps Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 2476M, defending the bank against class allegations under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act.
  • Dexia, Assured Guaranty, Financial Security Assurance, Inc. and Financial Security Assurance Holdings, Ltd. in multidistrict class action litigation alleging antitrust violations in the municipal derivatives industry.
  • Sompo International in its agreement to purchase the operating subsidiaries of Lexon Surety Group LLC.
  • In Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, the largest deal in Microsoft’s history, which was awarded 2017 Merger Control Matter of the Year – Europe by Global Competition Review.
  • In Microsoft's $2.5 billion acquisition of Mojang and its Minecraft franchise.
  • In Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, recognized as 2012 Merger Control Matter of the Year – Europe by Global Competition Review.
  • In Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's handset business.
  • In Microsoft's acquisition of Havok 3D physics video game technologies from Intel.   
  • In Microsoft's role in the acquisition of more than 6,000 patents from Nortel.
  • In Microsoft's purchase from AOL of more than 800 patents and related patent applications as well as a non-exclusive license to AOL's retained patent portfolio for $1.1 billion, and in the subsequent assignment of a significant portion of those intellectual property assets to Facebook Inc. for $550 million.
  • In Microsoft's acquisition of Yahoo!'s search business and subsequent partnership agreements with Yahoo!.
  • Activist investor Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management in its acquisition of a 9.9% stake in Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.
  • Customer relationship management (CRM) software provider ELEAD1ONE in its sale to fellow automotive commerce company CDK Global, Inc.
    
  • As antitrust counsel providing advice related to many prospective transactions and related investigations, including advocacy on behalf of concerned industry participants.