Full Name
Heather Johnson
Job Title
Senior Director
Company
T-Mobile
Speaker Bio
Heather M. Johnson is Senior Director for Antitrust, Government Investigations and Enforcement at T-Mobile and oversees antitrust matters, government investigations and litigations as well as related counseling across the business. Heather is a litigation veteran with two decades of experience in competition and government investigations law. She joined T-Mobile in 2022 following a decade at the Federal Trade Commission, where she held senior management roles in the Bureau of Competition, including her final role as Acting Deputy Director. As part of the Bureau’s leadership, Heather oversaw the work of numerous shops in all aspects of merger and litigation matters and coordinated directly with the Bureau Directors and Commissioners to implement enforcement and policy priorities. Heather also worked on high-
profile policy projects with counterparts at the Department of Justice, State Attorneys General, and international enforcers, and liaised directly with Congress on issues affecting the Commission’s work.
Prior to joining the FTC leadership, Heather’s work at the FTC included investigations and litigation involving alleged violations of the antitrust laws. Heather successfully led the FTC v. Actavis litigation and played a leading role in the FTC’s district court victory in FTC v. AbbVie. Heather is the recipient of numerous FTC awards, including the Paul Rand Dixon Award for successfully arguing in opposition to four motions for summary judgment in two different cases in federal court in the span of less than a year.
Prior to joining the FTC in 2012, Heather worked at the law firms of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Crowell & Moring LLP, where her practice focused on counseling, civil litigation, and government review of transactional matters. In private practice, Heather regularly represented clients before the DOJ and FTC in antitrust conduct, merger, and criminal investigations. Heather graduated from Emory University School of Law, as a Robert W. Woodruff Fellow, cum laude, Order of the Coif, in 2005, after which she clerked for the Honorable Edward E. Carnes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
profile policy projects with counterparts at the Department of Justice, State Attorneys General, and international enforcers, and liaised directly with Congress on issues affecting the Commission’s work.
Prior to joining the FTC leadership, Heather’s work at the FTC included investigations and litigation involving alleged violations of the antitrust laws. Heather successfully led the FTC v. Actavis litigation and played a leading role in the FTC’s district court victory in FTC v. AbbVie. Heather is the recipient of numerous FTC awards, including the Paul Rand Dixon Award for successfully arguing in opposition to four motions for summary judgment in two different cases in federal court in the span of less than a year.
Prior to joining the FTC in 2012, Heather worked at the law firms of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Crowell & Moring LLP, where her practice focused on counseling, civil litigation, and government review of transactional matters. In private practice, Heather regularly represented clients before the DOJ and FTC in antitrust conduct, merger, and criminal investigations. Heather graduated from Emory University School of Law, as a Robert W. Woodruff Fellow, cum laude, Order of the Coif, in 2005, after which she clerked for the Honorable Edward E. Carnes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
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