Practice
Wayne Dale Collins has over 30 years of experience in antitrust law as a government policy maker, a law school faculty member, and a private practitioner. He is often involved in complex transactions and litigations requiring a sophisticated analysis given his training at the Ph.D. level in economics, extensive technical background gained at Caltech, work in systems analysis at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and government experience.

Although he works in all aspects of competition law, Mr. Collins focuses primarily on the defense of mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures before competition agencies throughout the world. He is also actively involved in a number of antitrust litigations in the United States as well as investigations conducted by the European Commission and other agencies.

Mr. Collins joined Shearman & Sterling in 1978. In 1981, he resigned from the firm to serve as a White House Fellow and Special Assistant to then-Vice President George H.W. Bush. Thereafter, Mr. Collins served as a special assistant and later as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division under William F. Baxter. He returned to the firm in 1983. Between 1991 and 1995, Mr. Collins was an adjunct faculty member at Yale Law School, where he taught the main antitrust course as well as several specialized antitrust courses. In January 2010, Mr. Collins returned to teaching antitrust law as an adjunct professor of law at New York University School of Law.

Mr. Collins is also active in scholarly programs regarding the design and implementation of competition law. He conceived and served as editor-in-chief of Issues in Competition Law and Policy, a three-volume treatise published in 2008 that comprehensively surveys the issues facing modern competition law in the United States, Europe and around the world. He is also the author of a book-length chapter on merger antitrust law in the Antitrust Adviser, which the most comprehensive treatment of the subject available. Outside of the United States, Mr. Collins has lectured at the invitation of the Chinese and Russian governments in Beijing and Moscow and at academic conferences in Brussels, Italy, and London.

• Citigroup’s pending sales of EMI’s music publishing division to a consortium led by Sony Corporation and Mubadala Development Company PJSC and EMI’s recorded music division to Vivendi’s Universal Music Group
• NASDAQ OMX’s attempted hostile contested takeover bid for NYSE Euronext and acquisition of FTEN
• Thomson’s acquisitions of Reuters, Informational Holdings, Primark, The Carson Group, West Publishing Company, IDD Enterprises, Harcourt’s Higher Education Division, the Elite Information Group, and TradeWeb, its joint venture with the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, and the EC’s investigation into a possible abuse of dominance in the data feeds business
• Merrill Lynch’s acquisition by Bank of America
• Dun & Bradstreet in its acquisition of QED and MKTG
• The Intercontinental Exchange’s acquisition of The Clearing Corporation and the formation of the ICE Trust central clearing facility for credit default swaps
• Intuit’s acquisition of PayCycle
• DTCC in the formation of the MarkitSERV joint venture
• DaimlerChrysler’s sale of Chrysler
• Royal Bank of Scotland’s consortium contested hostile takeover bid for ABN AMRO
• Blockbuster’s contested hostile takeover bid for Hollywood Video
• Viacom’s acquisition of CBS, its contested acquisition of Paramount, its friendly merger with Blockbuster Entertainment, its sale of Madison Square Garden to Cablevision, its sale of Simon & Schuster to Pearson plc, the DOJ investigation of the Movielink joint venture, and the design of Blockbuster’s revenue-sharing programs for home video rentals
• Pechiney’s once hostile and ultimately friendly acquisition by Alcan
• Georgia-Pacific’s acquisition of Fort James, its hostile acquisition of Great Northern Nekoosa, and its acquisition of U.S. Plywood
• Instrumentarium’s acquisition by GE
• Aventis’ sale of its agricultural chemicals business to Bayer
• Citicorp’s acquisition of AT&T Universal Card Services, its merger with Travelers Group, and the DOJ investigation into the credit card industry
• Medical Manager’s merger with Healtheon/WebMD
• INA’s hostile acquisition of FAG Kugelfischer Georg Schäfer AG
• Visio’s acquisition by Microsoft
• Phelps Dodge’s simultaneous hostile bids for Cyprus Amax and Asarco
• Deere’s acquisition of Timberjack
• Quest Diagnostic’s acquisitions of SmithKline Beecham’s clinical laboratory business, American Medical Laboratories, and Unilab
• Cobe’s sale of its heart-lung machine business to Sorin
• Federal Paper Board’s acquisition by International Paper
• Special Metals’ acquisition of Inco’s Huntington Alloys
• Silicon Graphics’ acquisitions of Alias Research, Wavefront Technologies and Cray Research
• Dr. Solomon’s Group’s acquisition by Network Associates
• Adobe’s acquisitions of Aldus and Frame Technology
• First Financial Management Corporation’s acquisition by First Data Corporation
• Corning’s acquisitions of Maryland Medical and Bioran
• Behring Diagnostics’ joint venture with Dade International
• Medco’s acquisition by Merck
• Danek Medical’s acquisition of Sofamor and its subsequent acquisition by Medtronics

• Adjunct Professor of Law, NYU School of Law, 2010-Present
• Member, Visiting Committee, University of Chicago Law School, 2003-2007
• Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School, 1991-1995
• Chair, Antitrust and Trade Regulation Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 2004-2007
• Officer and Council Member, American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law, 1991-1999
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation
• Member, American Law Institute
• Member, American Law and Economics Association
• Member, American Economics Association
• Member, Council on Foreign Relations
• Member, Econometric Society
• Member, Industrial Organization Society