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Amy E. Hancock is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Washington, D.C. office. She is a member of the Firm’s Antitrust & Competition Practice, where her practice focuses on antitrust litigation and counseling.
Amy manages the Firm’s Risk Arbitrage Practice Group. The Practice represents institutional investors and hedge funds considering investment in the securities of publicly traded companies that are involved in mergers and acquisitions, or the subject of hostile take over attempts. The Practice reviews an average of 200 transactions annually. For the Firm’s institutional investor and hedge fund clients, Amy has analyzed the antitrust and regulatory implications of merger transactions in the public utilizes, the communications, media, banking, pharmaceutical, chemical, oil and gas, retail, grocery, insurance, health care and many other industries.
Amy belongs to the District of Columbia Bar Association and is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia, the State of Illinois and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth and Eleventh circuits.
Representative Experience
Omega Environmental, Inc. v. Gilbarco, Inc., 127 F.3d 1157 (9th Cir. 1997). In the Omega case, the Firm was successful in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in reversing a district court jury verdict in favor of the plaintiffs on a Clayton Act §3 claim and several state law antitrust and common law claims. The Ninth Circuit opinion is significant for its analysis of the appropriate standard for determining market foreclosure and antitrust injury in a Clayton Act §3 case.
United States v. Baker Hughes, 731 F. Supp. 3 (D.D.C.), aff’d 908 F.2d 981 (D.C. Cir. 1990). In the Baker-Hughes case, the Firm successfully defended the acquisition of a division of Baker?Hughes by Oy Tampella AB, a Finnish corporation, against an antitrust challenge by the Department of Justice. The decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in that case is significant for its treatment of the standard for analyzing the ease of entry issue in merger cases.
Education:
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. (cum laude), 1984
University of Missouri, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1981 | 