Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, AGENCY NEWS: Management promotions at FTC Bureau of Competition announced, (May 8, 2014)

FTC Bureau of Competition Director Debbie Feinstein recently announced a number of promotions in the Bureau.

Barbara Blank and Mark Woodward have been promoted to Deputy Assistant Directors in the Anticompetitive Practices Division (ACP), which handles the Bureau’s enforcement efforts against anticompetitive conduct in industries other than health care.

Blank, who joined ACP in 2007, was lead staff attorney in the Commission’s investigation of Google’s search practices. She also negotiated the settlement of information sharing charges against the National Association of Music Merchants.

Woodward, who came to the Commission in 2007 and moves to ACP from the Bureau’s Health Care Division. He has played a key role in the Commission’s litigation efforts to stop anticompetitive pay for delay agreements between branded and generic pharmaceutical companies, including FTC v. Actavis. Woodward also served as an Attorney Advisor to Commissioner Julie Brill.

James Rhilinger has been promoted as Deputy Assistant Director of the Mergers II Division, which covers a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, computer hardware and software, and entertainment. Rhilinger came to the Commission in 2004.

In the Premerger Notification Office (PNO), Bob Jones was promoted to Assistant Director and Kate Walsh is now Deputy Assistant Director. Jones, who has been with the FTC since 1990, has managed the work of the shop for the last 12 years. Walsh joined the PNO in 2007 from private practice, and has been instrumental in recent HSR Form revisions and other rulemakings.

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