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Andrew I. Gavil

Senior Of Counsel
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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

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Speaking Engagement | 12.12.23

George Washington University Law School Jacob Burns Moot Courtroom

Event | 12.12.23

The George Washington University Competition Law Center and Crowell & Moring present their Fifth Annual Antitrust & Tech Conference

Firm News | 2 min read | 12.05.23

George Washington University Competition Law Center and Crowell & Moring Host Fifth Annual Antitrust and Tech Conference

Client Alert | 8 min read | 07.20.23

Turning Back The Clock? Agencies Seek to Remake and Expand Merger Prohibitions
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