The Trump administration has announced its appointment of Joseph Simons as Chair of the FTC, pending Senate confirmation. Simons is a partner and co-chair of the antitrust group at Paul Weiss. He is also a former Director of the Bureau of Competition at the FTC during the Bush administration, and during his tenure he oversaw 70 antitrust enforcement actions. For more coverage of the FTC under the Trump administration, see “FTC Settlements in Privacy Shield Cases and With Lenovo Over Use of “Man-in-the-Middle” Software Highlight Vigorous Enforcement Efforts” (Sep. 27, 2017).
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