Megan L. Wolf
Overview
Megan Louise Wolf is a partner in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. Megan's practice focuses on antitrust counseling, mergers and acquisitions, and criminal and civil antitrust investigations. Named as a “Rising Star” by Legal 500 and The Deal, Megan counsels and represents clients in a wide range of transactional antitrust matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, competitor collaborations, and issues related to compliance with the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act. Megan represents corporations and individual executives in criminal antitrust investigations, including those into procurement collusion, hiring practices, bid rigging, and price fixing across many industries.
Megan also advises clients on mitigating antitrust risk in their day-to-day business operations, including teaming agreements, distribution issues, pricing, and antitrust compliance.
Megan received her J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in 2011, where she served as article development editor for the American Criminal Law Review and was a member of the Barristers' Council Trial Advocacy Division. During law school, Megan interned for U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She received her B.A. in journalism, with highest distinction, from The Pennsylvania State University in 2005.
Career & Education
- Pennsylvania State University, B.A., summa cum laude, journalism, 2005
- Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., cum laude, 2011
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
Megan's Insights
Client Alert | 4 min read | 04.10.26
FTC Issues Five-Year Strategic Plan: What Businesses Need to Know
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently released its Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2026–2030, setting out the agency’s enforcement priorities and operational objectives for the next five years under Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson. The plan reaffirms the FTC’s commitment to vigorously enforcing the nation’s antitrust and consumer protection laws “without fear or favor.” Critically for businesses, the plan returns the phrase “without unduly burdening legitimate business activity” to the agency’s mission statement, signaling a commitment to ending what the agency characterizes as overregulation of businesses that compete fairly and deal honestly with consumers. Despite this business-friendly framing, the plan signals robust enforcement across consumer protection, antitrust, and emerging technology — areas that will directly affect in-house counsel’s compliance planning over the coming years.
Client Alert | 1 min read | 03.20.26
Blog Post | 03.04.26
Client Alert | 3 min read | 02.24.26
State-Level Merger Control Grows: California Joins “Mini-HSR” Trend with Senate Bill 25
Representative Matters
- Representing United Technologies in connection with its $135 billion merger with The Raytheon Company, which The Deal named its 2020 "Deal of the Year," its $30 billion acquisition of Rockwell Collins, and its $16.5 billion acquisition of Goodrich.
- Representing a multinational corporation in a grand jury investigation into hiring practices (no-poach/non-solicitation) that was closed without action.
- Representing DIRECTV in its proposed acquisition of the DISH Network video distribution business.
- Representing a multinational distributor in a grand jury investigation into price fixing and market allocation in the generic pharmaceutical industry that was closed without action.
- Representing JAB and National Veterinary Associates in their concurrent $1.1 billion acquisition of SAGE Veterinary Centers and $1.6 billion acquisition of Ethos Veterinary Health (both cleared subject to consent orders).
- Representing a private equity fund in securing antitrust clearance worldwide for numerous transactions in the aerospace and defense sector.
- Representing Humana Inc. in its proposed $37 billion merger with Aetna Inc. and related litigation.
- Representing TransCanada Corp. in its $13 billion acquisition of Columbia Pipeline Group.
- Representing United Technologies Corporation in its $9 billion divestiture of Sikorsky Aircraft to Lockheed Martin.
- Representing AT&T Inc. in its acquisition of DIRECTV.
- Representing Flowers Foods in its acquisition of the Hostess bread brands and assets.
- Representing corporations and executives in criminal antitrust investigations related to price fixing and bid rigging in a wide variety of industries including auto parts, financial products, telecommunications and media, and others.
- Representing a major aerospace and defense company in an FTC Section 2 conduct investigation that was closed without action.
- Litigations involving Section 1 and Section 2 claims in a variety of industries, including health care, aerospace, and defense.
- Counseling matters relating to compliance with the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act.
Megan's Insights
Client Alert | 4 min read | 04.10.26
FTC Issues Five-Year Strategic Plan: What Businesses Need to Know
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently released its Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2026–2030, setting out the agency’s enforcement priorities and operational objectives for the next five years under Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson. The plan reaffirms the FTC’s commitment to vigorously enforcing the nation’s antitrust and consumer protection laws “without fear or favor.” Critically for businesses, the plan returns the phrase “without unduly burdening legitimate business activity” to the agency’s mission statement, signaling a commitment to ending what the agency characterizes as overregulation of businesses that compete fairly and deal honestly with consumers. Despite this business-friendly framing, the plan signals robust enforcement across consumer protection, antitrust, and emerging technology — areas that will directly affect in-house counsel’s compliance planning over the coming years.
Client Alert | 1 min read | 03.20.26
Blog Post | 03.04.26
Client Alert | 3 min read | 02.24.26
State-Level Merger Control Grows: California Joins “Mini-HSR” Trend with Senate Bill 25
Recognition
- Chambers USA: Antitrust, District of Columbia, 2025
- Legal 500: Next Generation Partner, Antitrust Merger Control, 2023
- The Deal: Top Rising Star, 2021
- Legal 500: Antitrust: Cartel, 2021
- Legal 500: Rising Star, Antitrust Merger Control, 2020
- Super Lawyers: Rising Star, Antitrust Litigation, Criminal Defense: White Collar, 2019
Megan's Insights
Client Alert | 4 min read | 04.10.26
FTC Issues Five-Year Strategic Plan: What Businesses Need to Know
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently released its Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2026–2030, setting out the agency’s enforcement priorities and operational objectives for the next five years under Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson. The plan reaffirms the FTC’s commitment to vigorously enforcing the nation’s antitrust and consumer protection laws “without fear or favor.” Critically for businesses, the plan returns the phrase “without unduly burdening legitimate business activity” to the agency’s mission statement, signaling a commitment to ending what the agency characterizes as overregulation of businesses that compete fairly and deal honestly with consumers. Despite this business-friendly framing, the plan signals robust enforcement across consumer protection, antitrust, and emerging technology — areas that will directly affect in-house counsel’s compliance planning over the coming years.
Client Alert | 1 min read | 03.20.26
Blog Post | 03.04.26
Client Alert | 3 min read | 02.24.26
State-Level Merger Control Grows: California Joins “Mini-HSR” Trend with Senate Bill 25
Insights
Cases and Precedents: Cartels: USA 2025
|11.01.24
Global Competition Review
Authored in 2023, 2024, 2025Antitrust and Government Contracting and Procurement
|05.03.24
Practical Law
Look Beyond The “Company Town”: Labour Monopsony And 21st-Century Merger Enforcement
|12.17.21
Global Competition Review
Is The Procurement Collusion Strike Force A New Frontier For Cartel Enforcement?
|04.15.20
Anti-Corruption Report
"What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About Antitrust Enforcement, Post-ACA," AHLA Connections
|11.01.16
JANUS: The Supreme Court's Statement about Ultimate Authority
|01.10.13
Criminal Justice, Vol. 27, No. 4
New Chief Competition Officer At HHS Could Ratchet Up Antitrust Actions
|01.17.24
Health Payer Specialist
FTC Updates (December 8 – 12, 2025)
|12.22.25
Crowell & Moring’s Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
FTC Down to Two Commissioners After (Former) Commissioner Holyoak Leaves for U.S. Attorney Role
|11.20.25
Crowell & Moring’s Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
FTC Uses Its Consumer Protection Powers to Regulate Sellers of GLP-1s
|07.21.25
Crowell & Moring’s Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
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07.03.25
Crowell & Moring’s Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
FTC Updates (June 16 – 20, 2025)
|06.30.25
Crowell & Moring’s Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
Megan's Insights
Client Alert | 4 min read | 04.10.26
FTC Issues Five-Year Strategic Plan: What Businesses Need to Know
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently released its Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2026–2030, setting out the agency’s enforcement priorities and operational objectives for the next five years under Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson. The plan reaffirms the FTC’s commitment to vigorously enforcing the nation’s antitrust and consumer protection laws “without fear or favor.” Critically for businesses, the plan returns the phrase “without unduly burdening legitimate business activity” to the agency’s mission statement, signaling a commitment to ending what the agency characterizes as overregulation of businesses that compete fairly and deal honestly with consumers. Despite this business-friendly framing, the plan signals robust enforcement across consumer protection, antitrust, and emerging technology — areas that will directly affect in-house counsel’s compliance planning over the coming years.
Client Alert | 1 min read | 03.20.26
Blog Post | 03.04.26
Client Alert | 3 min read | 02.24.26
State-Level Merger Control Grows: California Joins “Mini-HSR” Trend with Senate Bill 25
