Maureen K. Ohlhausen
Baker Botts (Washington)
Lawyer (Partner)
Maureen K. Ohlhausen is a partner at Baker Botts, LLP, where she chairs the firm’s Global Antitrust and Competition practice. She represents top-tier clients across a wide variety of industries including technology, retail, telecommunications, social media, and life sciences. She also led the Federal Trade Commission as Acting Chairman and Commissioner, where she directed all aspects of the FTC’s antitrust work, including merger review and conduct enforcement, and steered all FTC consumer protection enforcement, with a particular emphasis on privacy and technology issues. A thought leader, Ms. Ohlhausen has published dozens of articles on antitrust, privacy, IP, regulation, FTC litigation, telecommunications, and international law issues in prestigious publications and has frequently testified before the U.S. Congress, including recent appearances before the Senate Commerce Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Antitrust Sub-Committee. Ms. Ohlhausen has received numerous awards, including the FTC’s Robert Pitofsky Lifetime Achievement Award and the Internet Association’s Internet Freedom Award. Prior to her role as Commissioner, Ms. Ohlhausen led the FTC’s Internet Access Task Force, which produced an influential report analyzing competition and consumer protection legal issues in the areas of broadband and Internet. She also clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and is an honors graduate of the George Mason School of Law and the University of Virginia.
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This morning, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling in AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC, finding that Section 13(b) of the FTC Act does not authorize the Commission to seek, or a court to award, equitable monetary relief such as restitution or disgorgement. 539 U.S. ___ (2021), Slip Op. (...)
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Recently, the European Commission (“EC”) launched two major public consultations for new legislative tools intended to step up antitrust enforcement in digital and other markets. One consultation relates to a new competition enforcement tool that would allow the EC to pro-actively intervene in (...)
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Update: On February 3, 2020, the DOJ and FTC announced that the deadline for submitting public comments on the draft vertical merger guidelines has been extended to February 26, 2020. The agencies also announced two public workshops – on March 11 and March 18 – to solicit dialogue on the draft (...)
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On 26 August 2019, a German appeal court suspended an order of the German competition authority (the “FCO”) which had found that Facebook’s data processing practices in Germany constituted an abuse of dominance in breach of German antitrust rules (the “decision”). Expressing serious doubts as to the (...)
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On 26 August 2019, a German appeal court suspended an order of the German competition authority (the “FCO”) which had found that Facebook’s data processing practices in Germany constituted an abuse of dominance in breach of German antitrust rules (the “decision”). Expressing serious doubts as to the (...)
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Douglas H. Ginsburg Liber Amicorum : An Antitrust Professor on the Bench Vol. II
In this second volume of the Douglas H. Ginsburg Liber Amicorum, the reader will find a series of essays no less brilliant than those in the first. Emphasis is, rightly, placed on Judge (...)
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9 December 2020
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Women & Antitrust - Voices from the Field, Vol. II
Leading competition professionals from around the world present reflections and forecasts on topical issues in antitrust and competition law and policy in this second volume of Women & (...)
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18 November 2020
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Global Antitrust Economics - Issues in Antitrust and Law & Economics
Concurrences Review in partnership with the Global Antitrust Institute of the Law & Economics Center held the Global Antitrust Economics Conference at George Mason University School of Law on (...)
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21 March 2016
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William E. Kovacic: An Antitrust Tribute Liber Amicorum Vol. II
In the wake of William E. Kovacic Liber Amicorum -An Antitrust Tribute - Volume I, this Volume II provides, in the European tradition of Liber Amicorum, 27 contributions from 37 prominent authors (...)
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9 September 2014
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