Kerry Jones is a partner in Morrison Foerster’s Global Antitrust Law Practice Group. Her practice includes supporting clients across the spectrum of antitrust and competition law matters, such as strategic counseling to manage antitrust risks, Hart-Scott-Rodino Act premerger notification filings, gun jumping and merger clearance advocacy, internal investigations, and antitrust litigation. Kerry has experience representing clients across a variety of industries, including telecommunications, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, robotics, and life sciences. She has experience representing domestic and multinational companies in federal courts.

Kerry received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she served on the editorial board of the Virginia Journal of Law and Politics. Kerry is admitted to practice in Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Representative Experience

Kerry has supported clients in all phases of the antitrust review process including:

• Sprint Corp. and SoftBank, the controlling shareholder of Sprint, in the landmark $59 billion merger of Sprint and T-Mobile US, Inc., one of the largest telecommunications deals in history.
• Sekisui House in its $4.9 billion acquisition of M.D.C. Holdings.
• Unity Software in its $4.4 billion acquisition of ironSource.
• Palo Alto Networks in its $3.35 billion acquisition of Chronosphere.
• Sumitomo Forestry in its $4.5 billion acquisition of Tri Pointe Homes.
• SoftBank in its acquisition of Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion.
• SoftBank in its $4.4 billion investment in WeWork, and later its $10 billion investment in the company.
• SoftBank in its $7.7 billion investment in Uber.
• TOPPAN in its $1.8 billion acquisition of Sonoco’s thermoformed and flexibles packaging business.
• Mobileye in its $15.3 billion acquisition by Intel.
• Axalta Coating Systems in its purchase of assets divested in connection with the Federal Trade Commission’s review of an acquisition in its industry.
• Boyd Gaming Corporation in its acquisition of three casinos and in its purchase of assets divested in connection with the Federal Trade Commission’s review of an acquisition in its industry.
• ON Semiconductor in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Fairchild Semiconductor.