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Comment: States confront enforcement challenges as US DOJ, FTC scoop up talented antitrust lawyers

By Khushita Vasant and Chris May
  • 30 Dec 2022 16:23
  • 30 Dec 2022 16:23
US state attorneys general are working to cope with the attrition of their best antitrust lawyers, who are being cherry-picked by the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.
As states take on the well-staffed, well-funded legal teams of giant corporations, state attorneys general are becoming increasingly vocal

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Khushita Vasant

Chief Antitrust Correspondent, US


Khushita covers US antitrust enforcement and litigation for MLex. A former Brussels hand, she wrote about about antitrust & mergers for the Policy and Regulatory Report (PaRR), she has covered the EU's actions against Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon to name a few. Khushita specialises in tech and patent policy coverage which featured in the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards. Previously as a financial journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, she wrote about monetary policy and the bond and currency markets. Khushita studied journalism at Mumbai University, and received an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for a masters from universities in Germany and Austria.

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