Bio

Haidee Schwartz focuses on guiding her clients’ transactions through U.S. and international antitrust agency reviews. She represents entities in conduct investigations and provides counsel regarding business operations and planning in relation to U.S. and global competition laws and policy development. From July 2017 to March 2019, Haidee served as Acting Deputy Director of the Bureau of Competition at the FTC. In this position, she oversaw the enforcement of the U.S. antitrust laws and managed investigations across multiple merger divisions in the FTC’s Bureau of Competition as well as the FTC’s Health Care division and Northeast Regional Office. She has directed investigation and litigation teams focused on transactions in various industries, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, chemicals, energy, technology, health care, consumer goods and retail. Prior to that position, she served as an Attorney Adviser to then-Acting Chairman and previously Commissioner Maureen K. Ohlhausen. In her roles at the FTC, she represented the agency and spoke on a range of competition issues, including big data, technology, and overall Commission practices. Her unique experience of having worked with all of the current FTC Commissioners gives her important insight into how the Commissioners consider and evaluate matters before them. Haidee also draws upon eight years of experience in private practice at a large international law firm, where she represented clients subject to FTC and DOJ merger and conduct investigations as well as DOJ criminal investigations, and defendants in private antitrust class actions. She also provided strategic advice to companies on a wide range of antitrust matters. Haidee previously worked as an executive at a global public affairs firm, directing public policy and communications strategies for corporate clients. Her work involved developing communication strategies to guide mergers and acquisitions through congressional scrutiny and regulatory reviews involving the DOJ, the FTC, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Transportation. She also handled crisis communications.