Mr Jeffrey Oliver > 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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Mr Jeffrey Oliver
Work Department
Litigation / Antitrust
Position
Partner
Career
Mr. Oliver advises clients on all aspects of antitrust law, with an emphasis on U.S. and international merger reviews. Mr. Oliver has obtained antitrust clearance for transactions in a wide variety of industries and jurisdictions, with significant experience in healthcare, oil and gas, and chemicals. Other experience includes heavy industry, utilities, media, transportation and trade associations. His practice routinely involves substantive advocacy in the U.S., China, Germany, Austria, Australia, before the E.C. and in other jurisdictions.
Prior to joining Baker Botts, Mr. Oliver was a Staff Attorney at the Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Competition. There, Mr. Oliver’s practice focused on merger and conduct investigations in the oil and gas industry.
Prior to being a lawyer, Mr. Oliver was a journalist working with numerous national and international publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Foreign Policy Magazine. Mr. Oliver was also a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan.
Memberships
District of Columbia Bar
Member, ABA (2010-present)
Education
J.D., University of Chicago Law School 2010
Articles Editor, Chicago Journal of International Law
Joseph Henry Beale Prize for Outstanding Legal Research and Writing
Bell, Boyd and Lloyd Prize, Best Brief, Bigelow Moot Court
Staff, Mandel Legal Aid Clinic
M.A., journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia 2004
O.O. McIntyre Writing Prize
B.A., Brigham Young University 2002
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