On June 15, 2021, within hours of her Senate confirmation as a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner, 32-year-old Lina Khan was appointed by President Biden to serve as the youngest FTC Chair in history.
Khan has established herself as a progressive antitrust activist and a leader of the “New Brandeis Movement” that advocates for a revival of more aggressive US antitrust policies and enforcement from the earlier part of the 20th century.
While there is no doubt that Khan’s FTC will add to its current roster of big tech investigations (which include the ongoing Amazon Marketplace investigation and the FTC’s lawsuit seeking to require Facebook’s divestiture of Instagram and WhatsApp), we also expect the FTC will focus on non-digital transactions that increase market concentration, especially in sensitive industries such as healthcare and pharmaceuticals.
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