Ms Jody Boudreault > Baker Botts L.L.P. > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile
Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices
700 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001-5692
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Ms Jody Boudreault
Work Department
Litigation / Antitrust
Position
Partner
Chair – Antitrust Life SCiences & Healthcare
Career
Jody Boudreault successfully advocates for antitrust clearance of multi-million-dollar strategic M&A so that companies can successfully meet their growth objectives. As a former Antitrust Division Honors Attorney, Jody uses her deep knowledge of substantive issues, regulatory processes, and agency officials to evaluate and counsel on antitrust risk from initial transaction assessment through HSR filing and agency investigations. She also regularly devises antitrust risk-reducing solutions to contracting and other business issues, and advocates for or against “needle-moving” policy proposals before government agencies.
Jody counsels clients across major sectors of the economy, including healthcare, life sciences, and health information technology; financial services, including fintech platforms; intellectual property and high-tech matters; consumer products; heavy industry; national defense; insurance; airline and aerospace; and media and entertainment.
Persuasive advocacy. Jody advocates for and against transactions and policy proposals before government agencies and responds to investigatory requests by the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), other federal agencies, Congress, and state Attorneys General.
Business solutions. She advises on M&A from initial risk assessment through HSR and state filings, second requests, settlements, and post-closing issues; divestiture buyers; JVs and collaborations; information exchanges; contracts and other business arrangements.
Pragmatic and thoughtful antitrust advice. Jody advises clients, including a Fortune 5 client, on a wide range of issues such as gun-jumping; network access; monopolization; Section 1 market allocation, price-fixing, and collusion; MFNs, foreclosure, refusal to deal, exclusive dealing, no-poach and non-compete agreements, interlocking directorates, antitrust compliance, standard setting, firewalls and data access, and more.
Jody is co-chair of the Unilateral Conduct Committee of the Antitrust Law Section of the American Bar Association, and previously served as vice chair on the ABA’s Pricing Conduct Committee. She contributed for many years to the Antitrust Law Developments treatise. She is a member of the Cornell Alumni Association and various PTAs.
Memberships
District of Columbia Bar
New York State Bar
United States Supreme Court
Education
J.D., Cornell Law School 2000
cum laude
Note Editor, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy
B.A., George Washington University 1991
magna cum laude
Personal
J.D., Cornell Law School 2000
cum laude
Note Editor, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy
B.A., George Washington University 1991
magna cum laude
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Antitrust > Merger control
Baker Botts L.L.P. fields a ‘deep and talented collection of antitrust lawyers’ as its antitrust and competition team, regularly instructed to handle the merger review elements of high stakes deals and consequent litigation. Its sector strengths span the healthcare, telecoms, and media and entertainment industries. Team head John Taladay is praised for his practice of ‘continuously analyzing the risk derived from the regulator’s view’, advising domestic and international companies in their merger, cartel, litigation and dominance matters. Matthew Adler regularly supports clients through complex, challenged transactions before the Department of Justice and FTC, with notable experience of the chemicals, healthcare, entertainment, and energy sectors, and Jody Boudreault counsels clients on antitrust risk from HSR filing through to agency investigations. International matters are regularly handled by Jeffrey Oliver. Mark Botti departed the team in December 2024. All attorneys based in Washington DC.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Finance > Project finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies