BA University of Virginia '00, JD Harvard University '03
Amy W. Ray leads the global Antitrust & Competition practice group at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Based in Tampa and Washington, DC, she represents clients in the technology, financial services, fintech, and energy sectors in high-profile U.S. and international matters. Amy advises on the full spectrum of transactions, investigations, and antitrust litigation. In addition to guiding domestic and cross-border M&A deals through competition agency reviews, she regularly advises on commercial relationships and competition compliance.
Substantively, Amy’s career has spanned from advising on Microsoft’s historic antitrust consent decree to developing monopolization and monopoly maintenance theories now used by competition enforcement agencies and litigants worldwide to assess Big Tech conduct. She represents competitors and industry participants in numerous competition cases instituted against Google, Amazon, Facebook/Meta, and leading AI foundation model providers.
Amy has been recognized by Legal 500 US for her work in merger control and cartel investigations. She is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and was featured in Global Competition Review’s “40 Under 40 – Class of 2016” for antitrust lawyers.
She served for several years on the U.S. National Women's Law Center Leadership Advisory Committee and was an inaugural board member of the Law360 Competition Editorial Advisory Board. Amy’s pro bono work includes a case for which her team was recognized by the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs for their contribution to fair housing litigation.
Amy is passionate about connecting with others at the intersection of her interests in music, wine, and art. She serves on the Advisory Board for Friends of Musique et Vin au Clos Vougeot, a New York-based organization supporting young musicians worldwide through funding, instrument loans, training, awards, and travel. This includes sponsorship of the annual Musique et Vin au Clos Vougeot festival held each June in Burgundy, France. Amy is also an active member of the 1243 Bourgogne Society, described by Forbes as “the most exclusive wine club in the world.”
In the United States, Amy is a chevalier (French for “knight”) in the New York and Florida West Sous-Commanderies of the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin.
In New York, Amy has been a consistent supporter of both the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as well as the Neue Galerie.
Amy holds a B.A. with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia (2000) and a J.D. from Harvard Law School (2003), where she was an Equal Justice Fellow. She is admitted to the bars of New York and the District of Columbia, as well as multiple federal district and appellate courts.
