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Joshua M. Goodman

Partner

Josh Goodman’s practice focuses on all aspects of antitrust law, including antitrust litigation, merger review, government investigations, and counseling clients. He represents clients before the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, state agencies, and in court. Previously, Josh served as a deputy assistant director of the FTC and as counsel to the director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition. He has experience with matters in a variety of sectors, including technology, media, energy, chemicals, life sciences, retail, and industrial products, and leads the firm’s antitrust working group on artificial intelligence and algorithmic pricing issues.

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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. He has won several agencywide awards for his work at the FTC.

Josh began his legal career in the litigation department of a major law firm, where he worked on cases involving antitrust and other areas of complex litigation.

  • Harvard Law School, 2008, J.D.
  • Yale University, 2005, B.A.
  • District of Columbia
  • New York
  • Clerkship to Judge Beryl A. Howell of the US District Court for the District of Columbia

Recommended, Antitrust: Merger control, The Legal 500 US (2024)

Member, Competition Editorial Advisory Board, Law360 (2024)

Excellence in Government Fellow, Partnership for Public Service (2020)

Multiple Janet D. Steiger Awards, US Federal Trade Commission

Stephen Nye Award, US Federal Trade Commission (2013)