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Washington, D.C. 20001-5692
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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Christopher Wilson
Work Department
Litigation / Antitrust
Position
Partner
Career
Christopher Wilson is a partner in Baker Botts’ Antitrust and Competition Practice group. His practice focuses on civil antitrust, intellectual property, and other complex commercial actions. Mr. Wilson has extensive experience representing both defendants and plaintiffs in federal and state courts from complaint filing through trial, as well as in advising corporate clients on a variety of antitrust and compliance matters. He has represented and advised clients across a range of industries, including but not limited to industrial manufacturing, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, retail, and healthcare manufacturing.
Mr. Wilson leads legal teams for Fortune 500 clients that are defending against and asserting Sherman Act claims in class action and other civil litigation. He also has extensive experience defending pharmaceutical companies in patent infringement and antitrust actions, as well as representing generic pharmaceutical manufacturers in Hatch-Waxman Act litigation.
Mr. Wilson has served as co-chair of the ABA Section of Litigation’s Antitrust Litigation and Consumer Litigation Committees. He currently serves as a member of the External Advisory Board for the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State University.
Mr. Wilson graduated from Stanford Law School, where he served as President of the Stanford Black Law Students Association and participated in legal clinics directed to criminal defense and public education law. He received his undergraduate degree from Penn State, where he was a Schreyer Honors Scholar and played running back and fullback for the university’s football tea
Memberships
District of Columbia Bar
Illinois State Bar
United States Courts of Appeals for the Third and Eleventh Circuits
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Education
J.D., Stanford Law School 2012
B.A., Political Science, Pennsylvania State University 2006
with honors
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
Highly regarded for its strong track record advising defendants in large class actions in the life sciences and manufacturing sectors, the antitrust and competition practice at Baker Botts L.L.P. has recently seen an increase in activity relating to algorithmic price-fixing cases in the real estate industry. John Taladay heads the practice and is a seasoned antitrust specialist with an emphasis on merger clearances, bid-rigging, price-fixing, market allocation, and unfair trade practices, particularly in the pharma sector. Paul Cuomo focuses his practice on multijurisdictional merger reviews and litigation, while James Kress takes point on competitor-on-competitor disputes and has a notable track record advising on class certification issues. Erik Koons regularly represents clients in bet-the-company litigations spanning the full range of antitrust issues with a particular focus on price-fixing, market allocation, and monopolization; Koons also co-chairs the firm’s antitrust consumer products sub-group. Christopher Wilson was promoted to partner in March 2023 and focuses on the intersection of IP and antitrust work for clients in the telecoms, manufacturing, healthcare, and pharma sectors. All mentioned individuals are based in Washington DC. Maureen Ohlhausen left the practice in January 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- 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
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- 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
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- 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
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)