Joe Sims
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Top Rated Family Law Attorney in Washington, DC
Antitrust, Health Care Law, Consumer Law, Government, Science & Technology Law
51 Louisiana Avenue NorthWest, Washington, DC 20001
About Joe Sims
Practice Areas
- Antitrust
- Health Care Law
- Consumer Law
- Government
- Science & Technology Law
Education
- Arizona State University, College of Law, Tempe, Arizona, 1970J.D.
- Honors: magna cum laude
- Arizona State University, 1967B.S.
Representative Cases
- ABB receives antitrust clearance for $4.2 billion acquisition of Baldor Electric (2011)
- Abbott acquires BASF Pharma (2009)
- Abbott acquires Facet Biotech for $722 million (2010)
- Abbott acquires Visiogen in a $400 million private company merger (2009)
- ACI Worldwide acquires S1 for $520 million (2011)
- American Airlines secures alliance with Japan Airlines (2009)
- American Needle obtains favorable ruling from U.S. Supreme Court in antitrust dispute with NFL (2010)
- American Tower obtains antitrust clearance for several acquisitions (2009)
- AOL obtains U.S., EU antitrust clearance for Netscape and Sun Microsystems transactions (2009)
- AOL secures antitrust clearance for merger with Time Warner (2009)
- Apple is third party in DRAM litigation (2009)
- Aventis resolves numerous federal and state cases around the U.S. involving antitrust issues in the vitamins industry (2009)
- Caremark's acquisition of Advance PCS receives antitrust clearance (2009)
- CBS secures DOJ approval for Viacom transaction (2009)
- CBS's acquisition of American Radio Systems clears DOJ review (2009)
- CBS's acquisition of Infinity Broadcasting cleared by DOJ (2009)
- Chevron prevails in U.S. Supreme Court antitrust case involving joint venture pricing (2009)
- Chevron wins antitrust clearance for its acquisition of Unocal (2009)
- Comcast obtains antitrust clearance from DOJ for NBCUniversal joint venture
- Ernst & Young and KPMG propose merger (2009)
- Ernst & Young International sells management consulting business to Cap Gemini Group for $11.7 billion (2009)
- European pharmaceutical manufacturer receives antitrust amnesty in U.S. and European investigations of vitamin producers' conduct (2009)
- Galileo International acquired by Cendant for $3.4 billion (2009)
- GM's sale of Hughes Electronics/DirecTV cleared by antitrust authorities (2009)
- Hertz to acquire Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group for $2.3 billion (2012)
- ICANN develops domain name registry system under direction of U.S. Dept. of Commerce (2009)
- ICANN prevails in antitrust lawsuit challenging settlement with VeriSign (2009)
- ICANN wins dismissal of VeriSign's antitrust claims related to operation of the ".com" internet registry (2009)
- Lee Memorial Health System defeats FTC challenge of Cape Coral acquisition (2009)
- Liberty Media cleared by DOJ to acquire DirecTV from NewsCorp (2009)
- National Beef Packing defends DOJ challenge to proposed acquisition by JBS (2010)
- Nextel acquires 900 MHZ spectrum after modification of Motorola consent decree (2009)
- Nextel merges with Sprint and resolves related disputes involving put shares and branding issues (2009)
- Nextel's acquisition of Motorola's 800 MHZ business cleared by DOJ (2009)
- Paper and forestry products manufacturer defends cartel investigations (2009)
- Procter & Gamble obtains DOJ clearance to acquire Tambrands (2009)
- Procter & Gamble's acquisition of Wella approved by DOJ (2009)
- Procter & Gamble divests its Folgers coffee business for $3.3 billion (2009)
- Procter & Gamble secures regulatory approvals worldwide for Gillette acquisition (2009)
- Procter & Gamble's acquisition of Clairol receives DOJ clearance (2009)
- R.J. Reynolds and other cigarette companies defend federal and state price fixing class actions (2009)
- R.J. Reynolds Tobacco combines with BAT's Brown & Williamson to form Reynolds American in $10 billion deal (2009)
- Reynolds American sells Lane, Limited to Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S (STG) for $205 million (2011)
- SABMiller wins antitrust approval for MillerCoors joint venture (2009)
- Stanley Works acquires National Manufacturing for $170 million (2009)
- TCI acquisition by AT&T receives DOJ approval (2009)
- TCI obtains antitrust clearance for acquisition of TBS by Time Warner (2009)
- Texas Instruments acquires National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion (2011)
- TV Guide's merger with Gemstar approved by DOJ (2009)
- UPM-Kymmene defends against pressure-sensitive labelstock antitrust class action litigation (2009)
- Westinghouse secures DOJ approval to sell power generation business to Siemens (2009)
- XM receives antitrust clearance for $13 billion merger with SIRIUS (2009)
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Arizona
- District of Columbia
Past Positions
- Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General, and Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, United States Department of Justice , Trial Attorney, 1970 - 1978
Office Info
Other Colleagues
- Of Counsel
- Partner
- Practice Leader Business & Tort Litigation
- Partner
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