Mr Matthew Adler > 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 Matthew Adler
Work Department
Litigation / Antitrust
Position
Partner
Career
Matthew Adler is an experienced antitrust lawyer whose practice focuses on merger clearance, counseling, compliance, and antitrust litigation. He regularly practices before the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Adler has counseled clients through complex and vigorously challenged transactions, including multiple mergers involving remedies to facilitate clearance. Mr. Adler has particular experience in the chemicals, healthcare, entertainment, and energy sectors. He enjoys partnering with clients on matters involving significant quantitative elements, including data and econometric analysis.
Mr. Adler is the incoming Vice Chair of the Distribution and Franchising Committee of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association.
Memberships
District of Columbia Bar
Maryland State Bar
Member, ABA (2014 – present)
Member, MSBA (2013 – present)
Education
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center 2013
magna cum laude
Order of the Coif
Certificate in WTO Studies
Fellow, Institute of International Economic Law
M.A., University of Maryland 2012
B.A., Oberlin College 2007
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