Michael J Perry

Michael Perry is a Partner in the Antitrust and Competition Practice at Gibson Dunn. Clients rely on his extensive experience to advise them in merger and non-merger antitrust investigations before the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice, and in complex private and government antitrust litigation. Michael has particular experience in the healthcare, life sciences, and technology sectors, including issues involving the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property law.

Michael previously served as Counsel to the Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition from 2015 to 2016. In that front-office role, he was directly involved in many of the agency's most important antitrust enforcement actions, including both merger and non-merger matters. He played an integral role in the FTC's challenge to the proposed Sysco/U.S. Foods merger and other high-profile cases such as FTC v. Actavis, FTC v. Cephalon, and FTC v. St. Luke's Health System.

District of Columbia Bar; State Bar of California; Antitrust Section, American Bar Association.