Andrew I. Gavil

Senior Of Counsel

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.

Andy is a senior counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, D.C., office. As a member of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Group, he supports the group’s litigation and counseling work. He is a leading academic authority on antitrust law and brings decades of experience to the group. He has been a member of the faculty at Howard University School of Law since 1989, where he teaches courses on antitrust law, civil procedure, complex litigation, federal courts, and Supreme Court jurisprudence. Andy has written, lectured, and commented extensively on antitrust law, jurisdiction, and procedure in the United States and abroad, and he is a frequent participant at antitrust conferences.

Andy has also co-authored several books, including a leading antitrust casebook and “Microsoft and the Globalization of Antitrust Law: Competition Policy for the Twenty-First Century.” He has been recognized by the Antitrust Law Section of the American Bar Association for his contributions to the work of the section and has served on the council of the section and as a frequent speaker at section events. He is a senior editor and former chair of the Editorial Board of the Antitrust Law Journal and the chair of the section’s International Scholar in Residence Selection Committee. In 2021, Andy’s work for the section was recognized with an Outstanding Performance Award.

Career & Education

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    • Federal Trade Commission
      Director, Office of Policy Planning, 2012–2014
    • Federal Trade Commission
      Director, Office of Policy Planning, 2012–2014
    • Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, J.D., 1981
    • Queens College, City University of New York, B.A., magna cum laude, 1978
    • 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
    • District of Columbia
    • Illinois (Inactive)
    • Supreme Court of the United States

Andrew's Insights

Client Alert | 5 min read | 02.20.25

Declaration of No Independence: President Trump Asserts Control Over Independent Agencies Through Executive Order

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....

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Andrew's Insights

Client Alert | 5 min read | 02.20.25

Declaration of No Independence: President Trump Asserts Control Over Independent Agencies Through Executive Order

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....