Gail Levine is a partner in the Paul Hastings Antitrust & Competition practice and is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. A trusted advisor in business-critical mergers or acquisitions with antitrust issues, Gail represents clients such as Fortune 500 companies and private equity firms and handles their merger control matters, represents them in investigations and counsels them on antitrust risk. She also advises small and growing tech start-ups on a wide variety of issues as they scale, and she represents high-tech companies in Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigations into data privacy and security issues.Gail was a deputy director in the Bureau of Competition of the FTC, serving under Chairman Joseph Simons and acting Chairwoman Rebecca Slaughter. In this role, she supervised over 100 lawyers in five divisions, handling all aspects of antitrust review. Gail oversaw a wide variety of merger reviews, anticompetitive conduct investigations and antitrust litigation, particularly in areas such as high-tech, pharmaceuticals, biotech and healthcare. She helped establish the new Technology Enforcement Division, which investigates anticompetitive conduct in digital markets.