Geoffrey D. Oliver
51 Louisiana Avenue NorthWest, Washington, DC 20001
About Geoffrey D. Oliver
Practice Areas
- Antitrust
Education
- Cornell University Law School, Ithaca, New York, 1985J.D.
- Major: International Law
- Honors: magna cum laude
- Harvard University, 1979B.A.
- Major: History & Economics
- Honors: cum laude
Languages
- French
- German
Representative Cases
- CIGNA obtains antitrust clearance to acquire Great-West Healthcare (2009)
- Hertz to acquire Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group for $2.3 billion (2012)
- InnoLux obtains antitrust clearance for three-way merger with Chi Mei and TPO (2010)
- International medical device manufacturer is third party in patent and antitrust dispute involving pulse oximetry products (2010)
- Reynolds American sells Lane, Limited to Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S (STG) for $205 million (2011)
- RFID Consortium obtains favorable business review letter for patent pool from Department of Justice (2010)
- SanDisk asserts patent over flash memory systems before the ITC (2009)
- SmartDrive asserts and defends patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation claims against DriveCam (2012)
- St. Elizabeth Medical Center cleared by FTC to merge with St. Luke Hospitals in Northern Kentucky (2009)
- Texas Instruments acquires National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion (2011)
- Vizio files antitrust and state law claims against Funai
- Yale-New Haven Hospital obtains antitrust approval for proposed Saint Raphael's acquisition (2012)
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Massachusetts
Past Positions
- Honorable Joseph L. Tauro, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, Law Clerk, 1985 - 1986
- Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Competition, 1998 - 2007
Office Info
Other Colleagues
- Of Counsel
- Partner
- Practice Leader Business & Tort Litigation
- Partner
Nearby Lawyers
- Antitrust
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