Jody Boudreault joined Baker Botts in 2018. She helps clients with antitrust clearances for strategic transactions such as M&A, joint ventures and licensing ; advises on commercial issues ; advocates before government agencies ; and defends antitrust litigation. She presents clients with useful business solutions to minimize their overall antitrust risk. Her work has spanned major sectors of the economy, including healthcare, life sciences, and health information technology ; financial services, including fintech platforms ; intellectual property and high-tech matters ; consumer products ; heavy industry ; national defense ; insurance ; and media and entertainment. Jody Boudreault advocates for and against transactions and policy proposals before the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ), Federal Trade Commission, other federal agencies, Congress, and state Attorneys General. Jody started her career as an Honors Attorney in the DOJ. There, she gained significant experience in all phases of government merger investigations including horizontal and vertical merger review, civil enforcement actions (CIDs/Second Requests), and investigative process and procedure. Before DOJ, Jody externed for a law school semester at the Antitrust Bureau, New York State Office of the Attorney General, working on New York ex rel. Spitzer v. Saint Francis Hospital, 94 F. Supp. 2d 399 (S.D.N.Y. 2000) (market allocation and state action immunity issues). Jody Boudrault has served as vice chair to the Pricing Conduct Committee of the Section of Antitrust Law of the American Bar Association since September 2017. She is a member of the Cornell Alumni Association and various PTAs.
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On 26 March, the European Commission (“EC”) published its findings of the evaluation of procedural and jurisdictional aspects of EU merger control, and new guidance on the application of Article 22 of the EU Merger Regulation (“EUMR”) encouraging Member States to refer more transactions to the EC (...)
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On May 12, 2020, the Department of Justice moved the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to vacate the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware’s U.S. v. Sabre Corp. opinion. In an opinion released on April 7, the court rejected DOJ’s challenge to the proposed merger of Sabre and (...)
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