Antitrust Division Senior Leadership Named

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division today announced the appointment of its new leadership team including the Chief of Staff, four Deputy Assistant Attorneys General, and a Special Counsel for Competition Policy. Two Deputies will oversee civil matters, one Deputy will oversee economic analysis and one Deputy will oversee international, policy and appellate issues. "This is an outstanding team of dedicated and highly regarded professionals who are well respected within their fields of expertise," said Christine A. Varney, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department’s Antitrust Division. "This dynamic team of individuals has the vision, intellect and experience to ensure that the Antitrust Division aggressively pursues all areas of antitrust enforcement in order to protect American consumers from anticompetitive harm." The leadership team includes: Sharis Arnold Pozen, Chief of Staff and Counsel — Before she came to the Department in February 2009, Pozen was a partner at Hogan & Hartson’s Antitrust, Competition, and Consumer Protection Group where she worked from1995 to February 2009, on a variety of antitrust matters in the technology and healthcare industries, and served as Practice Group Director for the Washington, D.C. office. She has counseled clients on a wide range of antitrust and consumer protection matters as well as issues pertaining to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and trade association matters. Prior to joining Hogan & Hartson, Pozen worked for five years at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as an Attorney Advisor to then Commissioners Varney and Yao, as Assistant to the Director of the Bureau of Competition, and as staff attorney. Pozen received her B.A. from Connecticut College in 1986 and her J.D. from Washington University in 1989. Molly S. Boast, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Matters —Boast, who is expected to arrive at the Department in May, is a seasoned antitrust veteran with extensive antitrust and management experience. Since 2001, she has been a partner at the New York law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP where she leads the antitrust practice group. From July 1999 to June 2001, Boast was Senior Deputy Director and Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition. During that time, she had management responsibility for merger and civil nonmerger Commission litigation and investigations, and has experience in competition issues in the energy and pharmaceuticals industries. Boast also served as the FTC’s representative to the European Community/FTC/Department of Justice Mergers Working Group. From 1987 to 1999, she worked at the New York law firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae where she was head of the litigation department and a member of the firms’ Steering Committee. She has served in various positions within the American Bar Association’s Sections of Antitrust and Litigation. Boast received her B.A. in 1970 from the College of William and Mary, her M.S. in 1971 from the Columbia University School of Journalism, and her J.D. in 1979 from the Columbia University School of Law. William Cavanaugh Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Matters —Cavanaugh, who is expected to arrive at the Department in May, is a highly experienced and lauded antitrust litigator. Since 1985, Cavanaugh has been with the New York law firm of Patterson, Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP where he has served as the firm’s Co-Chair, Chair of the Litigation Department and a Litigation Partner since 1991. He has extensive trial and litigation experience in complex antitrust, patent and commercial matters. From 1981 to 1985, Cavanaugh was a Litigation Associate handling complex product liability, insurance coverage and general commercial matters at the New York law firm of Rivkin Radler LLP. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, was named as one of the Best Lawyers in America for Antitrust Law and Commercial Litigation, and was named as one of New York’s "