Aimee Goldstein is a Partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in the Firm’s Litigation Department, where she focuses on antitrust litigation, complex transactions and antitrust counseling.  She regularly counsels corporate clients on a variety of antitrust issues including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and distribution practices.

Ms. Goldstein has represented clients before the Federal Trade Commission, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and numerous state and foreign competition authorities. Recent engagements include Tyco International in its $2 billion acquisition of Brink’s Home Security Holdings, Tops Markets in its $85 million bankruptcy acquisition of the Penn Traffic Company’s business assets, the representation of CSL Limited in its acquisition of Talecris from Cerberus and in its earlier purchase of Aventis Behring’s plasma business, Sirius Satellite Radio in its $13 billion merger with XM Satellite Radio, Smithfield Foods in its sale of its beef processing business to JBS and in its acquisitions of Premium Standard Farms, Cook’s and Farmland, PanAmSat in the sale of its assets to Intelsat, adidas in its acquisition of Reebok, Abbott in connection with acquiring assets divested pursuant to the sale of Guidant to Boston Scientific, and Wellpoint Health Networks Inc. in its acquisition of Anthem Inc.  Ms. Goldstein has also represented Chevron USA in a number of FTC investigations into gas and oil pricing in various regions of the United States.

Ms. Goldstein is currently representing HCA, Inc. and Methodist Healthcare of San Antonio in a class action litigation in the Western District of Texas, alleging that San Antonio area hospital systems colluded to suppress nurse wages.  She also represented MasterCard in both In re Visa Check/MasterMoney Class Action Litigation, a class action lawsuit brought against MasterCard and Visa by a class of 4 million retailers alleging more than US$40 billion in damages for antitrust violations, and in connection with a high-profile lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice against MasterCard and Visa alleging violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Act.

Ms. Goldstein recently published a chapter in a book entitled “Meeting the Challenge”, Winning Legal Strategies for Antitrust Law, Aspatore Books (Jan. 2007).  She has been recognized in various publications as a leading competition attorney, including Chambers, PLC Competition Handbook and Who’s Who Legal.

Ms. Goldstein received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1991 and her B.A., summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Emory University 1988.  She currently is a member of the Board of Directors of SCOPE, a non-profit organization dedicated to sending underprivileged children to summer camp.  Ms. Goldstein is a member of the New York and California Bars.

Honors/Associations

•	American Bar Association, Antitrust Section

Publications

•	Revised HSR Act Thresholds
•	The Supreme Court Considers Whether the NFL is a "Single Entity" and thus Immune from Antitrust Scrutiny
•	The Heightened Pleading Standard of Twombly Applies to All Federal Civil Claims
•	China Blocks Foreign Acquisition of a Chinese Company in an Early Major Test of the Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law
•	The Supreme Court Rejects the “Price Squeeze” Theory of Illegal Monopolization
•	Revised HSR Act Thresholds
•	The Supreme Court Considers the Applicability of the “Price-Squeeze” Theory of Illegal Monopolization
•	Whole Foods/Wild Oats: D.C. Circuit Reverses and Remands on Motion to Preliminarily Enjoin Already Consummated Merger
•	The Department of Justice Gives Unconditional Approval to Proposed Merger of Sirius and XM
•	Revised HSR Act Thresholds
•	First U.K. Criminal Charges Are Brought Against Cartel Participants Following DOJ Plea Agreements in the U.S.
•	EU Commission Dawn Raids Companies for Alleged Gun-Jumping Violations
•	The European Court of First Instance Upholds the European Commission’s Finding that Microsoft Abused its Dominant Position
•	Supreme Court Holds That Minimum Resale Price Maintenance is Not a Per Se Violation of Antitrust Law
•	Supreme Court Rules that IPO Litigation is Immune from Antitrust Scrutiny
•	Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly: Raising the Bar for Pleadings by Antitrust Plaintiffs
•	DOJ Announces Reforms to Merger Review Process - January 18, 2007
•	The European Court of First Instance Annuls the European Commission’s Decision Approving the SonyBMG Joint Venture - July 18, 2006
•	Two Supreme Court Antitrust Decisions In Two Days - March 2, 2006
•	FTC Reforms to Merger Review Process - February 21, 2006
•	Antitrust Enforcement and the Telecommunications Act of 1996, The Multimedia Law Report, Vol. 2, No. 9, July 1996
•	Software Mergers: The Enforcement Record, Computer Industry Committee Newsletter, American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law, Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall/Winter 1995
•	The Biotechnology Patent Protection Act of 1991, 4 Journal of Proprietary Rights, No. 3, 1992

Admissions

•	New York 1992
•	California 1993

Education

•	Harvard Law School, 1991 J.D. Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Law Review, Executive Director
•	Emory University, 1988 B.A. summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa