Christina C. Ma
Education
- Brown University, B.A. 2009
- Columbia Law School, J.D. 2012 (Essays and Review Editor, Columbia Law Review)
Clerkships
Honorable Amalya L. Kearse, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Christina C. Ma
Christina Ma is a Partner in the Antitrust Department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Her practice focuses on analyzing competition issues arising out of mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures and advising and representing clients before the U.S. and international antitrust authorities. Christina has guided clients through extensive agency merger investigations, trials, and antitrust compliance matters in varied industries, including banking and financial services, consumer products, energy, pharmaceuticals, technology, and retail and wholesale operations.
Christina has been recognized for her work and accomplishments by Bloomberg Law, Best Lawyers’, Chambers, Lawdragon, MergerLinks and the New York Law Journal.
Representations by Christina include:
- Gibraltar Industries in its $1.3 billion acquisition of OmniMax International
- Electronic Arts in its $55 billion acquisition by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake and Affinity Partners
- Rayonier in its $8.2 billion all-stock merger of equals with PotlatchDeltic
- Teck Resources in its $69 billion merger of equals with Anglo American
- Synovus in its $17 billion all-stock combination with Pinnacle Financial Partners
- Hidden Road in its $1.25 billion acquisition by Ripple
- Core Scientific in its $9 billion proposed acquisition by CoreWeave
- Seagate Technology in its acquisition of Intevac
- Capital One in its $35 billion acquisition of Discover Financial Services
- Consol Energy in its $5.2 billion merger with Arch Resources
- Jacobs Solutions in its divestiture of its Critical Missions Solutions business in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction with Amentum
- The J.M. Smucker Co. in its $5.6 billion acquisition of Hostess Brands
- National Instruments in its $8.2 billion acquisition by Emerson
- Univar Solutions in its $8.1 billion acquisition by Apollo
- LKQ Corporation in its $2.1 billion acquisition of Uni-Select
- NuVasive in its $3.1 billion acquisition by Globus Medical
- Edgewell Personal Care in its acquisition of Billie
- Hill-Rom in its $12.4 billion acquisition by Baxter International
- Alexion Pharmaceuticals in its $39 billion acquisition by AstraZeneca
Christina is co-chair of the ABA Antitrust Law Section’s Technology Committee and Chair of the NYSBA Antitrust Law Section’s Mergers Committee. She also serves on the advisory council for Columbia Law School’s Center for Public Research and Leadership.
Christina graduated from Brown University and received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a James Kent Scholar, Essay & Review Editor for the Columbia Law Review, and the recipient of the Young B. Smith and the Valentin J.T. Wertheimer prizes. Prior to joining the firm, Christina served as a law clerk to the Honorable Amalya L. Kearse of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Select Publications
- Financial Institutions M&A Key Trends and Outlook,
in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, April 24, 2026.
- Wachtell Lipton Offers Antitrust Insights from the Administration’s First Six Months,
in Columbia Law School’s Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets, July 30, 2025 and NYU Law School’s Blog on Compliance and Enforcement, August 15, 2025.
- Wachtell Lipton Discusses the New Administration and Antitrust Merger Remedies,
in Columbia Law School’s Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets, June 12, 2025.
- Financial Institutions MA Key Trends and Outlook,
in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, February 3, 2025.
- Divergence, Disorder, and the Future of Bank Merger Review,
in The Antitrust Source, December 23, 2024.
- Wachtell Lipton Discusses FTC’s Sweeping Changes to HSR Reporting Obligations,
in Columbia Law School’s Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets, October 15, 2024.
- U.S. M&A Antitrust Enforcement: 2023 and the Year Ahead,
in Columbia Law School’s Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets, January 22, 2024 and NYU Law School’s Blog on Compliance and Enforcement, January 31, 2024.
- FTC and DOJ Propose Fundamental Revision of Merger Guidelines,
in NYU Law School’s Blog on Compliance and Enforcement, July 20, 2023.
- FTC Proposes Sweeping Changes to HSR Reporting Obligations,
in NYU Law School’s Blog on Compliance and Enforcement, July 6, 2023.
- Revising Bank Merger Guidelines,
in The Banking Law Journal, Volume 138 Number 1, January 2021.
- The Other "S" in ESG: Building a Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chain,
in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, August 14, 2020.
- ESG Factors and Antitrust,
in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, February 27, 2020.