David Balto has practiced antitrust law for over 20 years both in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and private practice.
 
David Balto counsels a wide variety of Fortune 500 companies on antitrust and consumer protection compliance, strategic alliances, distribution issues, mergers and joint ventures.  We represent a broad range of pharmaceutical and medical device manufactures, healthcare providers, retailers, financial services and high technology firms.  We frequently represent parties in the most sophisticated matters before the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, Congress and state legislatures.  We regularly are involved in many of the most high profile government antitrust investigations.

David Balto has over 15 years of government antitrust experience, as a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and in several senior level positions at the Federal Trade Commission.  David Balto was the Policy Director of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission (1998-2001) and attorney advisor to Chairman Robert Pitofsky (1995-1997).  In these positions, he was a senior advisor in all aspects of the FTC's merger and non- merger enforcement program.  He helped litigate the challenges to the Staples/Office Depot, Drug Wholesalers, and Heinz/Beechnut mergers, the Intel monopolization case, and the challenges to anticompetitive conduct by several pharmaceutical companies.

David Balto is a prolific author on antitrust, consumer protection, financial services, intellectual property, and health care competition.    He is Vice-Chair of the ABA Antitrust Section’s Federal Enforcement committee.