Andrew I. Gavil
Overview
Clients rely on Andy Gavil for 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, distribution strategies, 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
Press Coverage | 12.26.25
Algorithmic Price-Setting Gets Antitrust Scrutiny Across Sectors
Podcast | 12.04.25
Publication | 07.31.25
A Defense Of The “For Cause” Termination Provisions Of The Federal Trade Commission Act
Client Alert | 5 min read | 06.13.25
Crowell and GWU Competition Law Center Host Sixth Annual Antitrust and Tech Conference
Insights
A Defense Of The “For Cause” Termination Provisions Of The Federal Trade Commission Act
|07.31.25
Progressive Policy Institute
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
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
Press Coverage | 12.26.25
Algorithmic Price-Setting Gets Antitrust Scrutiny Across Sectors
Podcast | 12.04.25
Publication | 07.31.25
A Defense Of The “For Cause” Termination Provisions Of The Federal Trade Commission Act
Client Alert | 5 min read | 06.13.25
Crowell and GWU Competition Law Center Host Sixth Annual Antitrust and Tech Conference




