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 heads McDermott’s Antitrust Practice.
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 of 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
- Global Competition Review, GCR 100, 2024
- Best Lawyers in America, Antitrust Law, Litigation – Antitrust, 2006-2025
- Chambers USA 2005-2024
- Legal 500 US, Leading Lawyer in Antitrust – Merger Control, 2024
- Who’s Who Legal, Competition, Thought Leader, 2024
- Acritas Stars, listed among independently rated lawyers, 2020
- Benchmark Litigation, Litigation Star, 2020
- Washington, DC Super Lawyer, 2011
- The World’s Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers
- An International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers
- Best of the Best Antitrust/Competition Lawyers
Community
- American Bar Association
Credentials
Education
Georgetown University Law Center, JD, 1975
University of Delaware, BA, cum laude, 1971
Admissions
District of Columbia
