Donald I. Baker, a former head the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justicee, established with Todd Miller in 1995 an independent in Washington firm specializing in antitrust, competition policy and international law issues. His firm’s efforts focus on joint ventures, mergers, licensing, network disputes and international transactions. The firm works closely, on a team basis, with corporate law departments and law firms in handling litigation, arbitrations, transactions and government civil and criminal investigations.

Mr. Baker was educated at (i) the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, (ii) Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge; and (iii) Harvard Law School.

Mr. Baker is the only modern member of the career Antitrust Division staff to be appointed Assistant Attorney General in Charge of the Antitrust Division. He was a Trial Attorney and Section Chief (1966-1971), and Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Regulated Industries, Appeals and Foreign Commerce (1972-1975), before becoming Assistant Attorney General (1976-1977).

He was Professor of Law at Cornell Law School (1975-1978), where he taught course on antitrust law, utility regulation, financial services regulation, and international business transactions. In recent years, he has given lectures at various universities—including Oxford, Cambridge and London universities in the UK.

At Baker & Miller, and previously as a Washington partner of two major law firms (1978-1994), Mr. Baker’s efforts have included all aspects of antitrust counseling; representing complainants as well as targets (or merger parties) in various government investigations; corporate internal investigations; major arbitrations; and several private antitrust cases for plaintiffs and defendants. He has briefed and argued cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and several U.S. Courts of Appeal.

He is currently serving as a Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network, working primarily on merger processes and monopoly enforcement issues.. He has also represented the governments of Australia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom in briefing international jurisdictional issues before the US Supreme Court and Courts of Appeals. Previously he served as special advisor to the Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine and the Government of Mongolia on establishing new rules and enforcement mechanisms.

Mr. Baker is a member of the Panel of Distinguished Neutrals (arbitrators, mediators, etc.), appointed by the CPR Legal Program to Develop Alternatives to Litigation and the Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association. He has served as arbitrator, mediator or counsel in various ADR processes. In 1988, he received the CPR Award for Significant Practical Achievement in Alternative Dispute Resolution as a result of some innovative proceduress that he and his co-counsel created for use in the Financial Interchange arbitration (dealing with an antitrust challenge to interchange fees on a major banking network).

 

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