FTC's Leibowitz Lands at Davis Polk

By John Eggerton
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WASHINGTON — Law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell has hired former Federal Trade Commission chairman Jon Leibowitz as a partner in its office here.

He will counsel on mergers and acquisitions, as well as privacy law.

Davis Polk did work for Comcast on a number of deals, including its merger with NBCUniversal, the sale of SpectrumCo wireless licenses to Verizon Communications and Comcast's purchase of AT&T's broadband assets.

Leibowitz’s resumé includes time as chief counsel to the Senate Antitrust and Technology Subcommittee and in government relations for the Motion Picture Association of America.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.