Dechert LLP

Antitrust/Competition

Counsel

Gregory P. Luib focuses his practice on antitrust and competition matters. Using his government and private sector experience, Mr. Luib represents clients in mergers and conduct investigations before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) and in private litigation, in a wide range of industries, including life sciences, health, and technology. Mr. Luib also represents clients in consumer protection matters before the FTC relating to advertising, marketing, privacy, and data security practices.

Mr. Luib served for more than a decade with the FTC. Most recently, as attorney advisor to Commissioner Maureen K. Ohlhausen, he provided counsel on competition matters, including merger and conduct investigations, law enforcement actions taken by the FTC, and significant issues of competition policy. Mr. Luib’s FTC experience also includes work as an attorney in the Mergers I Division of the Bureau of Competition, where he led merger investigations in various industries, including pharmaceuticals, health care data, industrial gases, aerospace, and defense. Mr. Luib previously served as the assistant director of the FTC’s Office of Policy Planning (OPP), where he focused on competition and consumer protection matters and served as a principal drafter of several policy reports issued by the Commission in the areas of network neutrality, Noerr-Pennington antitrust immunity, and real estate brokerage services. While in OPP, Mr. Luib received the Paul Rand Dixon award for outstanding contributions to the agency’s competition advocacy program.

Prior to joining the FTC in 2005, Mr. Luib was an associate at another international law firm where he focused his practice on merger review and antitrust counseling and litigation.

Mr. Luib is a frequent author and lecturer on antitrust issues in the healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and technology industries. Mr. Luib is also an active member of the ABA’s Section of Antitrust Law, where he currently serves on the editorial board of Antitrust Law Developments and the U.S. Comments and Policy Committee.

ABA Section of Antitrust Law Vice-Chair, U.S. Comments & Policy Committee (2021-2022) Editorial Board Member, Antitrust Law Developments 9 (2020-2022) Member, Long Range Planning Committee (2020-2021) Co-Chair, Media & Technology Committee (2015 – 2020) Chair, Exemptions & Immunities Committee (2013-2015) Vice-Chair, Exemptions & Immunities Committee (2007-2012) Vice-Chair, Programs Committee (2004-2007) Member, Editorial Board, Annual Review of Antitrust Law Developments (2002-2004)

University of Virginia, B.A., Economics, 1994, high distinction University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1999, Virginia Tax Review