About this episode

Bilal Sayyed discusses the current state of US antitrust enforcement and its politicization with Bloomberg Intelligence analysts.

Antitrust law has come into sharper focus over the past year, with several high-profile cases, including in Big Tech. Bilal Sayyed, former Director of the FTC’s Office of Policy Planning and current competition counsel at TechFreedom, as well as counsel at the law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft, joins Bloomberg Intelligence litigation analysts Jennifer Rie and Justin Teresi on this Votes and Verdicts episode to talk about the state of US antitrust enforcement one year into the Trump administration. They discuss whether antitrust enforcement has become politicized (or more politicized), the departure of Gail Slater from the DOJ, the firing of the two Democratic FTC commissioners and various policy initiatives of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition and the DOJ’s Antitrust Division. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Jennifer Rie, Justin Teresi

Guest: Bilal Sayyed

Topics covered

• antitrust law
• Big Tech
• US antitrust enforcement
• politicization
• FTC
• DOJ
• competition policy

Keywords

• antitrust
• enforcement
• Big Tech
• FTC
• DOJ
• politicization
• competition

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FTC, TechFreedom, Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft, DOJ, FTC’s Bureau of Competition, DOJ’s Antitrust Division

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