David Balto
White & Case LLP
601 13th St N.W.
Washington, D.C.  20005
202-626-3617
dbalto@whitecase.com

David A. Balto is a partner in the Antitrust Group of White & Case LLP, an international law firm with over 1,400 attorneys in 27 countries. His practice focuses on mergers and strategic alliances, high technology, and intellectual property .

Mr. Balto has practiced antitrust law for almost two decades in private practice, the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission. At the FTC he was head of the policy office of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission and attorney advisor to Chairman Robert Pitofsky. In these positions he was a senior advisor in all aspects of the FTC's merger and non-merger enforcement program. He played a key role in generating the FTC's pharmaceutical enforcement program including  the challenges to anti-competitive conduct by several pharmaceutical companies.