David Turetsky joined Akin Gump as a partner in the Washington D.C. office in December 2014. With more than 30 years in business, government and the legal industry, his practice focuses on public law and policy matters, with an emphasis on cyber law and policy; privacy; data breach issues; competition law; and a variety of industries, including telecom, media and technology (TMT). Previously, Mr. Turetsky was coordinator of Dewey & LeBoeuf’s Washington, D.C. Antitrust Practice Group. He handled state, federal and international antitrust investigations; litigates private class and individual lawsuits; appears before regulatory commissions such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and state insurance departments; works with Congress and the Executive Branch; and represents clients on a range of US and global conduct, merger, joint venture, regulatory and compliance matters. He brings senior U.S. government antitrust enforcement experience as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust in the U.S. Department of Justice; and business experience as a senior lawyer and officer of a fixed-wireless telecommunications and broadband services company, and as the federal court and FCC appointed Management Trustee of business operations in a total of 20 markets until divested by an acquirer to satisfy a merger consent decree on two occasions.
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This article has been nominated for the 2012 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. Summary On Friday, June 17, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice released the Antitrust Division’s Policy Guide to Merger Remedies. The Guide describes the (...)
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This article is the winner for business category, general antitrust section of the 2012 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to read more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. Summary Britain’s Office of Fair Trading (the UK consumer and competition authority) has negotiated an agreement (...)
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The Supreme Court recently issued a unanimous decision in a notable "price-squeeze" case under § 2 of the Sherman Act involving rival telecom companies. Pacific Bell Tel. Co. v. Linkline Commc’ns, Inc., No. 07-512 (Feb. 25, 2009). The Court held that a vertically integrated company that had (...)
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The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has overturned the Federal Trade Commission’s ruling against Rambus, Inc. (“Rambus”), finding that the Commission did not prove that Rambus’s failure to disclose certain intellectual property interests to a standard-setting organization (...)
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On 25 September 2007 the European Commission (“Commission”) published its final Report on the effectiveness of competition in commercial insurance in the EU . The Report follows the publication of an interim report at the beginning of 2007, and a substantial two-year investigation during which (...)
