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Andrew Foster is head of Skadden’s Asia Pacific antitrust and competition practice. He has nearly 20 years of experience advising on competition regimes around the globe, including China, the EU and the U.S. 

Bio 

Repeatedly selected for inclusion as a leading competition lawyer in Chambers Global, Chambers Asia Pacific, Chambers Greater China, IFLR1000 Asia Pacific and Who’s Who Legal: Competition, Mr. Foster also has published widely on international competition issues and has advised on many of the most high-profile and complex cross-border merger control transactions over the past two decades. 

Mr. Foster’s recent experience includes: 

  • Activision Blizzard Inc. (U.S.) in its US$75 billion acquisition by Microsoft Corporation. This is the largest-ever technology deal and the largest-ever gaming industry deal 
  • Juniper Networks, Inc. (U.S.) in its US$14 billion acquisition by Hewlett Packard Enterprise 
  • Ansys, Inc. (U.S.) in its US$35 billion acquisition by Synopsys, Inc. 
  • Splunk Inc. (U.S.) in its US$28 billion acquisition by Cisco Systems, Inc. 
  • TikTok, Inc. (U.S.) in its US$1.5 billion strategic partnership with PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia Tbk 
  • Jabil Inc. (U.S.) in the US$2.2 billion sale of its mobility business to BYD Electronic (International) Company Limited 
  • Axiata Group (Malaysia) in Celcom Axiata’s US$12 billion merger with Digi, a subsidiary of Telenor Asia. This is the largest-ever telecoms transaction in Malaysia 
  • Grab Holdings Inc. (Singapore) in its US$40 billion merger with Altimeter Growth Corp. As a result of the merger, Grab became a publicly traded company in the largest-ever de-SPAC transaction globally and the largest-ever U.S. equity offering by a Southeast Asian company, with PIPE proceeds of US$4.04 billion 
  • SK Hynix Inc. (South Korea) in its US$9 billion acquisition of the NAND memory and storage business of Intel Corporation 
  • Xilinx, Inc. (U.S.) in its US$35 billion acquisition by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 
  • Cisco Systems, Inc. (U.S.) with certain antitrust and regulatory aspects of its US$2.6 billion acquisition of Acacia Communications, Inc. 
  • Red Hat, Inc. (U.S.) in its US$34 billion acquisition by International Business Machines Corporation 
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise (U.S.) in its US$1.3 billion acquisition of Cray Inc. 
  • Rockwell Collins, Inc. (U.S.) in its US$30 billion acquisition by United Technologies Corp. 
  • Cavium Inc. (U.S.) in its US$6 billion acquisition by Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 
  • E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (U.S.) in its combination with The Dow Chemical Company in an all-stock merger of equals with an announced value of US$130 billion 
  • EMC Corporation (U.S.) in its US$67 billion acquisition by Denali Holding Inc., the parent company of Dell Inc. 
  • NXP Semiconductors N.V. (the Netherlands) in its proposed (but terminated) US$47 billion acquisition by Qualcomm Incorporated 

Mr. Foster also has assisted in obtaining conditional immunity with the European Commission and other competition law agencies, and has substantial experience representing clients in Article 101 and 102 investigations, as well as U.S. private litigation and class action matters. 

Credentials 

Education 

  • LL.M., University of Edinburgh, 2005 (with distinction) 
  • J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 2004 (Clarence Darrow Scholar; cum laude) 
  • B.A., Yale University, 1999 

Admissions 

  • Hong Kong 
  • New York