Michael S. McFalls
MICHAEL S. McFALLS
Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue
Washington, D.C.
msmcfalls@jonesday.com
Michael McFalls is with Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington,
where he focuses exclusively on antitrust matters. Most of his
work involves government investigations; the remainder consists
of counseling on antitrust issues involving intellectual property
and joint ventures. Since returning to Jones, Day in June 2000,
Michael has focused on merger and nonmerger matters in the pharmaceutical,
biotechnology, defense, consumer products, mining, broadcast,
internet, airline, automotive, financial services, and information
technology industries.
From 1997 through 2000, Michael worked on antitrust matters at
the Federal Trade Commission. While serving as Attorney Advisor
to former FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky, Michael worked on numerous
merger and nonmerger antitrust investigations, including BP/ARCO,
Exxon/Mobil, Barnes & Noble/Ingram, DuPont/ICI, Ahold/Pathmark,
Intel, Mylan Laboratories, and Aventis/Andrx. Before working for
Chairman Pitofsky , Michael assisted FTC's Policy Planning office
in the development and drafting of the "Antitrust Guidelines
for Collaborations among Competitors" (April 2000).
Michael is currently a vice chair of the Intellectual Property
Committee of the American Bar Association's Section of Antitrust
Law. Recently, he was co-chair of the ABA Antitrust Section's
Fall 2001 Forum on "New Administration, New Technologies."
He is also the editor of Antitrust and Intellectual Property,
and has been an editor and author of "Antitrust Issues Involving
Intellectual Property" in Annual Review of Antitrust Developments
from 1998 through 2000. He has spoken and written about a number
of antitrust issues involving intellectual property and joint
ventures.
Michael graduated from the University of Virginia Law School
in 1995, where he was a member of Order of the Coif. He also received
an M.A. in History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill in 1992. He graduated in 1989 with a B.A. in History from
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he was Phi Beta Kappa.
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