Andrew I. Gavil
Overview
Clients rely on Andy Gavil due to his considerable experience as a practicing competition lawyer, academic, and former director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning. His interests and capabilities extend to all aspects of antitrust law and competition policy, including technology and digital markets, exclusionary conduct by dominant firms, analyses of theories of competitive harm, regulatory responses to new and disruptive firms and business models, and international and comparative aspects of competition policy.
Career & Education
- Federal Trade Commission
Director, Office of Policy Planning, 2012–2014
- Federal Trade Commission
- Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, J.D., 1981
- Queens College, City University of New York, B.A., magna cum laude, 1978
- District of Columbia
- Illinois (Inactive)
- Supreme Court of the United States
Andrew's Insights
Client Alert | 5 min read | 02.20.25
On February 18, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies” that directs independent agencies (as well as Cabinet Departments and their sub-agencies) to route all “proposed and final significant regulatory” and budgetary actions through the White House and the Office of Management and Budget. If implemented to its full extent, this action will significantly strengthen the authority of the White House by weakening the political autonomy of these independent agencies. As an assertion of the President’s inherent powers under Article II of the U.S. Constitution, it also stands to weaken congressional influence over these independent agencies, both through the appropriations and confirmation processes.
Publication | 12.05.24
Press Coverage | 08.05.24
Client Alert | 35 min read | 07.11.24
Insights
Roundtable: The Legacy of the Microsoft Case
|04.30.21
American Bar Association ANTITRUST Magazine, Vol. 35, No. 2
Antitrust in the Digital Age
|02.26.20
Crowell & Moring's Regulatory Forecast 2020
Antitrust – Antitrust Enforcement Policy for Big Data? Stay Tuned.
|02.27.19
Crowell & Moring's Regulatory Forecast 2019
"Antitrust Law in Perspective: Cases, Concepts and Problems in Competition Policy"
|09.08.16
A Flexible Health Care Workforce Requires a Flexible Regulatory Environment: Promoting Health Care Competition Through Regulatory Reform
|05.02.16
91 Wash. L. Rev. 147
The FTC's Study and Advocacy Authority In its Second Century: A Look Ahead
|05.01.15
83 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1902
Imagining a Counterfactual Section 36: Rebalancing New Zealand's Competition Law Framework
|04.10.15
46 Victoria U. of Wellington L. Rev. 1043
Panelists: Khan Should Focus On Enforcement, Not Undemocratic Rule Efforts
|06.28.22
Communications Daily
Is House Judiciary Report A Fix For Big Tech, Or A One-Sided Political Document?
|10.17.20
Broadband Breakfast
Andrew's Insights
Client Alert | 5 min read | 02.20.25
On February 18, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies” that directs independent agencies (as well as Cabinet Departments and their sub-agencies) to route all “proposed and final significant regulatory” and budgetary actions through the White House and the Office of Management and Budget. If implemented to its full extent, this action will significantly strengthen the authority of the White House by weakening the political autonomy of these independent agencies. As an assertion of the President’s inherent powers under Article II of the U.S. Constitution, it also stands to weaken congressional influence over these independent agencies, both through the appropriations and confirmation processes.
Publication | 12.05.24
Press Coverage | 08.05.24
Client Alert | 35 min read | 07.11.24