Profile: Tyler A Baker

Competition

Biography: Competition

Mr Baker is a partner in the Silicon Valley Office of Fenwick & West LLP in Mountain View, California, where he heads the antitrust litigation practice group. His practice is focused on complex trials and appeals, with a primary emphasis on antitrust and intellectual property law.

Mr Baker has extensive experience in all aspects of antitrust law. He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in civil antitrust trials and individuals and companies that were targets in state and federal antitrust investigations. He has provided antitrust advice to clients on a wide variety of issues, including distribution practices, joint ventures, pre-merger notification, and substantive merger reviews by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission

. He has been recognised by his peers and clients as one of the leading antitrust lawyers in the United States in numerous surveys, including Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA, Northern California Super Lawyers, and Best Lawyers in the Bay Area. Before joining Fenwick & West, Mr Baker practised in Dallas, Texas. He was named the 'go-to lawyer' in Texas for antitrust by Texas Lawyer magazine, one of the 'best lawyers in Dallas' for antitrust by D Magazine and a 'Texas super lawyer' by Texas Monthly magazine.

Mr Baker received his undergraduate education at Southern Methodist University, graduating with a BA with highest honours in Economics in 1969. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, graduating with a BA in Jurisprudence with first-class honours in 1972. He attended Stanford Law School - where he was a member of the Stanford Law Review's board of editors - and received his JD degree with highest honours in 1975.

Mr Baker served as a law clerk to US District Judge Charles Renfrew in the Northern District of California. He then served as a law clerk to Justice Lewis F Powell Jr during the 1976 term of the US Supreme Court. Mr Baker was the law clerk with principal responsibility for drafting the Court's opinion in Continental TV Inc v GTE Sylvania Inc, 433 US 36 (1977), a case that led to important changes in the antitrust law of vertical restrictions.

From 1978 to 1981, Mr Baker was an assistant professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he taught and wrote on the subjects of antitrust and intellectual property.

From 1981 to 1982, Mr Baker served as special assistant to William F Baxter, assistant attorney general for the US Department of Justice's antitrust division. He had primary responsibility for the 1982 revision of the antitrust division merger guidelines. For this work, the attorney general of the United States awarded Mr Baker a special commendation for outstanding service.

Mr Baker speaks and writes frequently on a variety of antitrust subjects. He is a member of the American Law Institute and has served on the Stanford Law School board of visitors. He is currently a member of the dean's high-tech advisory committee at Santa Clara University Law School.

He is admitted to practise in California and Texas and numerous federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court.