Nicholas Pung
Overview
Nicholas (Nick) Pung is an associate in Crowell & Moring’s Advertising and Brand Protection and Antitrust and Competition groups. He creatively leverages his government, regulatory, and marketing background to help clients meet their business and legal objectives. His practice spans transactions, investigations, litigation, compliance, and regulatory advice.
Career & Education
- Federal Trade Commission
Legal Intern, Anticompetitive Practices Division, 2022 - District of Columbia
Legal Intern, Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Office of Consumer Protection, 2023
- Federal Trade Commission
- Legal Extern, National Advertising Division, BBB National Programs, 2023
- Shopper Marketing Assistant Brand Manager, Whirlpool Corporation, 2019–2021
- The George Washington University Law School, J.D., with honors, 2024
- University of Michigan, BBA, with high distinction, 2019
- District of Columbia
Nicholas's Insights
Client Alert | 4 min read | 09.25.24
Online Privacy and Safety: The FTC Weighs in on Surveillance, Privacy, and Safeguards
After conducting an investigation targeted at nine popular social media and video streaming companies, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) released a Staff Report examining their data practices, including those relating to minors. The FTC based its report on responses to questions it compelled under Section 6(b) (which enables the Commission to require an entity to file reports or answers in writing to specific questions) from Amazon.com, Inc. (which owns the gaming platform Twitch), Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms, Inc.), YouTube LLC, Twitter, Inc. (now X Corp.), Snap Inc., ByteDance Ltd. (which owns the video-sharing platform TikTok), Discord Inc., Reddit, Inc., and WhatsApp Inc.
Practices
- Advertising and Brand Protection
- Antitrust and Competition
- False Advertising Disputes and Litigation
- Advertising Transactions and Agreements
- Brand Protection
- Digital Advertising
- Trademark Counseling and Litigation
- Environmental, Social, and Governance
- Antitrust Counseling
- Antitrust Investigations
- Antitrust Mergers and Acquisitions
Industries
Nicholas's Insights
Client Alert | 4 min read | 09.25.24
Online Privacy and Safety: The FTC Weighs in on Surveillance, Privacy, and Safeguards
After conducting an investigation targeted at nine popular social media and video streaming companies, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) released a Staff Report examining their data practices, including those relating to minors. The FTC based its report on responses to questions it compelled under Section 6(b) (which enables the Commission to require an entity to file reports or answers in writing to specific questions) from Amazon.com, Inc. (which owns the gaming platform Twitch), Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms, Inc.), YouTube LLC, Twitter, Inc. (now X Corp.), Snap Inc., ByteDance Ltd. (which owns the video-sharing platform TikTok), Discord Inc., Reddit, Inc., and WhatsApp Inc.