Gail Levine Bio

Gail Levine co-leads the firm’s global Antitrust & Competition practice, which was recently recognized once again as among Global Competition Review’s “Global Elite.” Gail is a trusted advisor to clients with business-critical mergers or acquisitions facing antitrust issues. Her clients include Fortune 500 companies and PE firms, and she handles their merger control matters, represents them in investigations, and counsels them on antirust risk. She is a trusted advisor to small and growing tech start-ups, counseling them in a wide variety of issues as they scale. She also represents high-tech companies in data privacy and security FTC investigations. She joined Mayer Brown from the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, where she served as a deputy director under Chairman Joseph Simons and Acting Chairwoman Rebecca Slaughter. Gail joined the FTC as a deputy director of the Bureau of Competition in 2018. In this role, she supervised over 100 lawyers in five divisions, handling all aspects of antitrust review. She oversaw a wide variety of merger reviews, anticompetitive conduct investigations and antitrust litigation, particularly in areas such as high-tech, pharmaceuticals, biotech and health care. She helped establish the new Technology Enforcement Division, which investigates anticompetitive conduct in digital markets. Previously, she spent more than a decade in-house. She was one of Uber’s top lawyers, working as head of US regulatory affairs and as director for competition, where she counseled senior business and legal executives on emerging competition and regulatory issues. She also served as vice president and associate general counsel at Verizon Communications, where she handled antitrust and IP issues. Prior to her tenure in-house, Gail was an attorney advisor to former FTC Chair Deborah Platt Majoras, advising on antitrust and IP matters. She was a significant contributor to the FTC’s first major report on IP and innovation and co-authored many other FTC reports. Earlier in her career, Ms. Levine was a trial attorney with the Civil Division of DOJ. An active community member, Gail has held several leadership roles in the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law. She has previously served on the ABA Antitrust Section’s Council, its governing board; the ABA Presidential Transition Task Force; the ABA Presidential Task Force on Pleading Standards; and as a vice chair of several committees, its committee dedicated to promoting women in antitrust. Additionally, she is a sought-after speaker and writer on antitrust and IP issues.