Joshua M. Goodman
Josh Goodman helps clients navigate all aspects of antitrust law, including antitrust litigation, merger reviews, government investigations, business counseling, and advising on mergers and acquisitions (M&A). With federal government experience spanning multiple administrations—including as a deputy assistant director of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and as counsel to the director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition—he represents clients before the FTC, Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, state agencies, and in court. Josh has experience with matters in a variety of sectors, including technology, media and telecom, energy, chemicals, life sciences, retail, and industrial products, and co-leads the firm’s antitrust working group on artificial intelligence and algorithmic pricing issues.
As a lawyer in the FTC’s Bureau of Competition for more than a decade, Josh supervised, led, and played key roles in many high-profile merger investigations and litigations, including cases raising complex vertical, horizontal, and potential competition issues. As a deputy assistant director of the FTC, Josh was a manager in its Mergers II Division, which handles merger investigations and litigations involving industries such as semiconductors, high-tech hardware and software, chemicals, and various industrial products. He previously served as a lead lawyer in the same division. Serving as counsel to the director of the Bureau of Competition in 2016–2017, Josh advised on cases from the FTC’s Mergers I and Mergers IV Divisions involving the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, among others.
As a litigator, Josh has courtroom experience in antitrust merger and conduct enforcement matters and has litigated in various federal district courts and the FTC’s administrative court. While at the FTC, Josh also engaged with international competition authorities and state attorneys general offices and won several agencywide awards.
Josh speaks and writes frequently on antitrust and competition law topics and is an active member of the antitrust bar. He serves as vice chair of the Federal Civil Enforcement Committee of the ABA’s Antitrust Section and has contributed to leading publications in the field, including Antitrust Magazine, Antitrust Source, Law360: Competition, and the Global Competition Review Merger Remedies Guide, among others.
