Jayma M. Meyer is Counsel in the Firm's Litigation Department.  Her areas of concentration are substantive antitrust counseling, federal and state antitrust litigation and government investigations and regulatory review of mergers and acquisitions.  Ms. Meyer has litigated antitrust cases and counseled clients under the Sherman, Clayton, Robinson-Patman and Hart-Scott-Rodino Acts including matters alleging price fixing, monopolization and other restraints of trade.  She has represented American Home Products in the N.D. of Ill. and 7th Cir. (In Re Brand Name Prescription Drugs Antitrust Litigation); Express Scripts in the E.D. Texas and 5th Cir. (Rx.com v. Medco et al.) and in the N.D. of Pa. (North Jackson v. Medco et al.); and JPMorgan Chase in the S.D.N.Y., 2nd Cir. and U.S. Supreme Ct. (Initial Public Offering Antitrust Litigation).   She has handled numerous merger transactions before the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice including representing Wyeth in its sale to Pfizer; Smithfield in its acquisitions of Farmland, Cooks, Premium Standard and its sale of Smithfield Beef; Express Scripts in its acquisitions of Diversified Pharmaceutical Services, National Prescription Administrators, Phoenix Marketing Group, Priority Healthcare and Curascript; and Pernod Ricard in its acquisition of Vin & Spirit (Absolut).  Ms. Meyer is also assisting pro bono the Center for Reproduction Rights in its challenge to certain provisions of the Arizona Abortion Law.

Ms. Meyer authored, "Relaxation of the Per Se Mantra in the Vertical Price Fixing Arena," 68 S. CAL. L. REV. 73 (1994), also republished in part in AN ANTITRUST ANTHOLOGY, ed. by Andrew I. Gavil (1996).  She has co-authored numerous other antitrust articles, including U.S. Antitrust Developments (2003) and Vertical Restraints, CALIFORNIA BAR ANTITRUST AND UNFAIR COMPETITION (4th ed. 2008).

Ms. Meyer was admitted to practice law in 1978 in the District of Columbia; in 1982 in New York; and in 1997 in California.

Ms. Meyer joined Simpson Thacher and Bartlett LLP in 1981 after a three-year stint as a staff attorney in the Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission, in Washington, D.C.  From 1993-1994, Ms. Meyer, while on a leave of absence from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, taught antitrust, products liability and legal writing at Stetson Law School, St. Petersburg, Florida.  Subsequently, Ms. Meyer was Simpson Thacher’s first litigator in its Los Angeles office. In the fall 1998, she returned to the New York office.  Ms. Meyer received a B.S. from Indiana University in 1975, with high distinction, and a J.D. from Georgetown University School of Law in 1978.

Honors/Associations

•	American Bar Association, Antitrust Section
•	Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Antitrust Section
•	California Bar Association, Antitrust Section
•	Executive Committee, Antitrust Section, New York State Bar Association
•	Editorial Advisory Board, Competition Law 360, Portfolio Media, Inc.
•	Women’s Committee Advisory Council, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
•	Vice Chair, NY Women’s Antitrust Group
•	Board, Kenilworth Association
•	Volunteer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Publications

•	Vertical Restraints, CALIFORNIA BAR ANTITRUST AND UNFAIR COMPETITION (4th ed. 2008)
•	"Relaxation of the Per Se Mantra in the Vertical Price Fixing Arena," 68 S. Cal. L. Rev. 73 (1994), also republished in part in AN ANTITRUST ANTHOLOGY, ed. by Andrew I. Gavil (1996).
•	U.S. Antitrust Developments

Speaking Engagements

•	Jayma Meyer Participated in Panel Sponsored by the Federal Bar Council and NYSBA November 24, 2009

Admissions

•	District of Columbia 1978
•	New York 1982
•	California 1997
•	U.S. Supreme Court 2007
•	U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
•	U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
•	U.S. District Court Eastern District of Illinois
•	U.S. District Court Northern District of Pennsylvania
•	U.S. District Court Arizona
•	U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
•	U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit
•	U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
•	U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
•	U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia

Education

•	Georgetown University Law Center, 1978 J.D.
•	Indiana University, 1975 B.S. High Distinction