The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) U.S. antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection. The FTC shares jurisdiction over federal civil antitrust enforcement with the Department of Justice Antitrust Division. The agency is headquartered in the Federal Trade Commission Building in Washington,DC.
Sir Anthony Michael Vaughan Salz is a British solicitor. He sat on the Board of Governors of the BBC from 1 August 2004,after the resignation of the former Vice Chairman,Lord Ryder,and was Acting Chairman in 2006 following the resignation of Michael Grade as BBC Chairman on 28 November 2006,Salz became Acting Chairman,and continued in this position until the BBC Trust succeeded the Governors on 1 January 2007.
The Magic Circle is an informal term describing the five most prestigious London-headquartered multinational law firms,which generally outperform the rest of the London law firms on profitability. The term has also been used to describe the most prestigious barristers' chambers in London. All of the 'Magic Circle' law firms and barristers' chambers specialise primarily in corporate law. The group of law firms comprises Allen &Overy,Clifford Chance,Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer,Linklaters,and Slaughter and May.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP is one of the largest and most prestigious international law firms in the world,headquartered in London. Tracing its roots back to the 18th century,it is also among the world's oldest.
Indranee Thurai Rajah is a Singaporean politician who has been holding the Cabinet portfolios of Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and Second Minister for Finance since 2018,as well as Second Minister for National Development since 2020. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP),she is a Member of the 14th Parliament and has been representing the Tanjong Pagar - Tiong Bahru ward of Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency (GRC) since 2015. She has also been Leader of the House since 2020. Within the PAP,she is a member of the party's Central Executive Committee. She is the fourth woman in Singaporean history to become a Cabinet minister after Lim Hwee Hua,Grace Fu and Josephine Teo.
Christine A. Varney is an American antitrust attorney who served as the U.S. assistant attorney general of the Antitrust Division for the Obama Administration and as a Federal Trade commissioner in the Clinton Administration. Since August 2011,Varney has been a partner of the New York law firm Cravath,Swaine &Moore,where she chairs the antitrust department.
Deborah Platt Majoras is the former chair of the Federal Trade Commission,appointed May 11,2004,by President George W. Bush and sworn in on August 16,2004. President Bush had announced his intention to appoint her to the position on July 30,2004. Majoras is a member of the Republican Party.
William Evan Kovacic is an American lawyer and legal scholar who served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2006 to 2011. Kovacic is currently a professor at George Washington University Law School,where he serves as director of their Competition Law Center.
Benito Romano was the first Puerto Rican to hold a United States Attorney's post in New York on an interim basis.
The Edinburgh Student Law Review (ESLR) is an academic journal published at the University of Edinburgh;it is edited,written and peer-reviewed entirely by students.
Waleed Iqbal is a Pakistani politician,lawyer,law professor serving as a member of Senate of Pakistan from Punjab,Pakistan and the Chairperson of the Senate Committee for Defense. He is the grandson of poet and politician Allama Muhammad Iqbal,and the son of philosopher and former Senior Justice Javid Iqbal and judge Nasira Iqbal.
Maureen Kraemer Ohlhausen is an American lawyer who is a former Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission,a position she held from April 4,2012,to September 25,2018. On January 26,2017,President Donald Trump designated Ohlhausen to serve as Acting Chairwoman of the FTC. In January 2018,she was nominated by President Trump to a seat on the United States Court of Federal Claims. Ohlhausen withdrew her nomination for the federal judiciary in December 2018,opting instead to join Baker Botts as partner and co-chair of the firm's antitrust practice.
Joshua Daniel Wright is an American economist and legal scholar who served as a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2013 to 2015. He has been a professor of law at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School since 2004,and is the executive director of its Global Antitrust Institute. At the time of his nomination,Wright was the fourth economist to serve as a member of the FTC.
Fangda Partners is a law firm headquartered in Shanghai,China with offices in Beijing,Guangzhou,Shenzhen and Hong Kong. It is one of the 15 largest China-based law firms measured by number of lawyers. It is the most profitable law firm in China measured by either revenue or profit per partner and is generally believed to be the most difficult law firm to be hired at.
Terrell McSweeny was a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. She was sworn in as a Commissioner of the FTC on April 28,2014,to an initial term that expired on September 25,2017. McSweeny left the position on April 28,2018.
Marike Paulsson is the Director of the University of Miami's School of Law International Arbitration Institute - a research think-tank in the field of international arbitration. She has experience working with Hanotiau &van den Berg in Brussels,Belgium,and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Allen &Overy in Amsterdam,the Netherlands.
Jesse William Markham was an American economist. Markham was best known for his work on antitrust policy,price theory and industrial organization. Markham was the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS),and the former chief economist to the Federal Trade Commission.
Alina Ionescu Marshall is a Judge of the United States Tax Court.
Dame Sarah Valerie Falk,styled The Honourable Mrs Justice Falk,is a British High Court judge and senior Judicial Commissioner.
Jan Hecker was a German lawyer and diplomat. He was an advisor to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a judge at the Federal Administrative Court,as well as an adjunct professor at the European University Viadrina. He died shortly after taking office as German ambassador to the People's Republic of China.
