Leslie Overton

Leslie Overton is a partner at Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP, where she focuses on antitrust law.

She served as deputy assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division from 2012 to 2014. There, Overton supervised over half of the department’s merger challenges, including litigation complaints, settlements, and transactions restructured or abandoned.

She has been recognized by Best Lawyers, Global Competition Review’s “40 under 40,” the National Bar Association’s “40 Lawyers under 40,” The Root 100, and as an “Outstanding Healthcare Antitrust Lawyer” by Nightingale’s Healthcare News.