Taylor M. Owings is a partner in the New York office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she represents clients in civil merger and non-merger matters both before government agencies and in private litigation. She also counsels clients on the application of antitrust law to their business operations, with an emphasis on issues arising in technology-focused industries.

Prior to joining the firm, Taylor served in the front office of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) from 2018 to 2021, first as counsel to the Assistant Attorney General and then as chief of staff. She was a key advisor on the application of antitrust law to technology industries, including in the DOJ’s review of the business practices of market-leading online platforms and in the application of antitrust law to the exercise of intellectual property rights and standard setting organizations. She was the recipient of both the Assistant Attorney General’s Award and the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service.

Taylor is intimately familiar with all phases of merger review, drawing on her direct experience reviewing mergers at the DOJ to counsel and represent clients before regulatory agencies. Her experience includes mergers involving vertical theories of harm, the acquisition of a nascent or potential competitor, and the implications of a merger for innovation and data accumulation.

Taylor also has deep experience crafting both trial and appellate strategy in headline-making antitrust and competition litigation, and has argued matters before the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the First and Fourth Circuits.

Upon leaving the DOJ in 2021, Taylor joined Baker Botts as a partner in that firm’s Washington, D.C., office.

Earlier in her career, she clerked for the Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for the Honorable Richard J. Leon on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.