Overview
Raymond (Ray) A. Jacobsen, Jr., advises clients on mergers, acquisitions and complex antitrust litigation. He has significant experience in the defense, medical devices, biotech, consumer product, energy and health care industries. Ray is the global head of McDermott’s Antitrust Practice and serves on the Management Committee.
Over the past 30 years, Ray has successfully defended more than 200 complex mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures in the United States, Europe and the Far East for clients such as Amgen, Constellation Brands, Diageo, Health Management Associates, Medtronic, NutraSweet Company, Blackboard, Lockheed Martin and Martin Marietta.
Results
- Represented Rochester General Health System and Unity Health System, successfully securing Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approval in the merger of two or the three hospitals in Rochester, New York
- Defended Amgen in a monopolization case, defeating preliminary injunction seeking to enjoin a bundled discount arrangement on pharmaceuticals (Ortho Biotech v. Amgen (D.N.J.))
- Defended in alleged monopolization of US launch vehicle market (Lockheed Martin Corp. v. Boeing Co. (N.D. Fla.))
- Defended in alleged price-fixing of molybdenum (Erie Forge v. Cyprus Minerals Co. (W.D. Pa.))
Recognitions
- An International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers
- Best of the Best Antitrust/Competition Lawyers
- The Best Lawyers in America, Antitrust Law, Litigation – Antitrust, 2003 to 2023
- Acritas Stars 2020, listed among independently rated lawyers
- Chambers USA 2005 to 2022
- The Legal 500 United States 2010 to 2019, 2021 to 2022
- Benchmark Litigation 2020, Litigation Star
- Outstanding International Business Lawyers
- Washington, DC Super Lawyer 2011
- The World’s Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers
Community
- American Bar Association
Credentials
Education
Georgetown University Law Center, JD, 1975
University of Delaware, BA, cum laude, 1971
Admissions
District of Columbia
