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Bre Castaneda

Bre Castaneda is a third-year law student at Indiana University Maurer School of Law with a passion for pro-enforcement antitrust and consumer protection advocacy. Prior to interning with AAI, Bre interned at the Federal Trade Commission, working in both the Technology Enforcement Division and the Mergers I Division during the Fall 2025 semester.

Bre also worked on state-level antitrust enforcement matters as a Janet Steiger Fellow and law clerk at the Office of the Indiana Attorney General during her first and second years of law school.

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Mark S. Hegedus

Mark S. Hegedus is a distinguished litigation attorney with over three decades of experience navigating the intersection of antitrust law, consumer protection, patent law, federal energy regulation, and complex federal litigation. Most recently, Mark served for 17 years as a litigation attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), where he represented the agency in high-stakes proceedings across the United States, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

A seasoned appellate advocate, Mark has drafted merits and amicus briefs for and presented oral arguments in nearly every federal circuit court of appeals. His work at the FTC involved close collaboration with components of the U.S. Department of Justice, including the Office of the Solicitor General, the Antitrust Division, and the Civil Division, to forge consensus on litigation positions. He received the Brandeis Award, one of the FTC’s highest honors, for this work. While at the FTC, Mark also provided legal advice to commissioners and staff on a wide range of subjects, including legal privileges, document preservation obligations, and document management. He was also a leader in the agency’s Diversity Council and the LGBTQ+ community.

Prior to his tenure in the FTC’s General Counsel office, Mark was a partner at Spiegel & McDiarmid LLP, where he spent over a decade representing municipal and cooperative entities in complex energy litigation, including before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, state public service commissions, and federal courts. His career also includes significant service as a Trial Attorney in the Antitrust Division’s Transportation, Energy and Agriculture Section. He is a recognized expert on antitrust and competition issues in the electric and gas industries. He was a contributing author to the American Bar Association’s Energy Antitrust Handbook, Third Edition (2017), and has been a frequent participant in AAI’s Energy Roundtables

Beyond his legal expertise and experience, Mark is known as a collaborative leader and an innovative creator of welcoming, inclusive workplace environments. He holds a J.D. from the New York University School of Law and a B.A. from the University of Michigan. Prior to law school, Mark served three years as congressional staff for two members of the U.S. House of Representatives. He is proficient in French and is an active choral singer.

Contact Information:
(202) 828-1226
mhegedus@antitrustinstitute.org

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William E. Kovacic

William E. Kovacic is the Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy at George Washington University Law School and Director of its Competition Law Center. He is also a Visiting Professor at King’s College London.

From August 2013 through March 2022, he served as a non-executive director with the United Kingdom’s Competition & Markets Authority. With Ariel Ezrachi, he edits the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement. From January 2006 to October 2011, he was a member of the Federal Trade Commission and chaired the agency from March 2008 until March 2009. He was the FTC’s General Counsel from 2001 through 2004.

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Slade Bond

Slade Bond is Chair of the Public Policy practice at Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP. He previously held senior roles in both the Executive Branch and Congress, most recently serving as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legislative Affairs under Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. In that role, he managed the Department’s top legislative priorities and advised senior officials on policy, confirmations, and congressional oversight. Previously, he served as Chief Counsel of the House Antitrust Subcommittee, where he directed the landmark digital markets investigation and helped oversee the passage of 19 laws in just four years. He has lectured widely on antitrust law, the legislative process, and congressional oversight, including at Stanford Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Yale School of Management, and Vanderbilt Law School.

Bond earned his LL.M. from The George Washington University Law School, his J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law, and his B.A. from the University of Mary Washington.

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Katherine Van Dyck

Katherine Van Dyck has spent her career championing consumer rights, small business interests, and employee protections through strategic litigation and policy advocacy. She is the founder of KVD Strategies PLLC, a senior fellow at Berkeley Law’s Civil Justice Research Initiative, and a senior legal fellow at American Economic Liberties Project. Ms. Van Dyck previously ran the amicus program in the FTC’s Office of Policy Planning and litigated class actions across the country as an attorney at Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca LLP.

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Matt Summers

Matt Summers specializes in appellate litigation, antitrust litigation, and the intersection of the two. Matt has argued in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the Delaware Supreme Court, and before a panel of the Virginia Supreme Court. He is currently lead appellate counsel in PhantomALERT v. Apple, an antitrust case in the D.C. Circuit.

Matt has taken two federal antitrust cases to trial and won both. Most recently, at the Innovative v. Biosense trial, his client won a $442 million jury verdict and permanent injunction. Matt successfully argued motions and evidentiary issues, took a deposition on the eve of trial, and prepared an economist for direct and cross-examination. Matt has written more than a dozen amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court, federal Courts of Appeal, and state supreme courts. A top debater, Matt has a particular focus on persuasion through briefing and oral argument—he regularly moots advocates before their arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court and in federal courts of appeal.

Prior to joining Berger Montague, Matt was an associate in the Supreme Court & Appellate Practice at Jenner & Block, LLP. In PLS.com v. National Association of Realtors, Matt successfully opposed certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court to defend the plaintiff’s precedent-setting win. In Processed Egg Products, Matt’s clients (direct purchaser plaintiffs) won a $53 million verdict after a seven-week, two-part antitrust jury trial.

Before his time at Jenner, Matt was a law clerk for Judge Boudin on the First Circuit and Judge Saris in the District of Massachusetts. Before clerking, Matt interned at the New Jersey Solicitor General’s office.

Matt graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he founded the Harvard Law School Antitrust Association, interned at DOJ Antitrust, and served on the Biden campaign’s antitrust policy team. Matt was an oralist in the semifinals of the Ames Moot Court competition and provided research assistance to Cass Sunstein, Laurence Tribe, and Glenn Cohen.

Before law school, Matt was an economic consultant for antitrust cases at Analysis Group, spent time on a Fulbright in South Africa, and did renewable energy work in Rwanda. Matt graduated magna cum laude from Bates College, where he received an award for the top economics student. Matt was named the Top Speaker at the 2015 U.S. Universities Debating Championship.

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Tom Dahdouh

Tom Dahdouh has been an attorney at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for 33 years. From 2021-2024, he served as an Attorney Advisor to FTC Chair Lina M. Khan. From 2013-2021, he was the Regional Director of the Western Region, overseeing and managing all investigations and litigations in the FTC’s San Francisco and Los Angeles offices. Before holding those positions, he served as an Attorney Advisor to two other FTC Commissioners in the 1990’s and as a staff attorney in the Western Region. In 2024, he received the FTC’s Robert L. Pitofsky Lifetime Achievement Award. The California Lawyers Association’s Antitrust and Consumer Protection Section recently named him “California Antitrust Lawyer of the Year” for 2025.

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Michael Swerdlow

Michael is a former Summer Law Clerk at the Federal Trade Commission, Intern at the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department, and Antimonopoly Director of the Democracy Policy Network. In these roles he has assisted with various federal antitrust investigations and advised policymakers on antitrust reform at the state and fed­eral level. He has also made significant contributions to the literature on labor antitrust, co-authoring a piece on merger remedies in labor markets and authoring an Article on antitrust standards for unilateral labor market conduct. As a Public Service Fellow, Michael will be researching enforcement standards for Section 3 of the Clayton Act.

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Trevor Young

Trevor has over a decade of experience with antitrust litigation and enforcement matters in complex legal matters. He most recently served as Deputy Division Chief of the Antitrust Division at the Texas Office of the Attorney General, where he was at the forefront of some of the nation’s most significant antitrust actions, including antitrust and consumer protection litigation against Google for monopolization and deceptive trade practices in digital advertising. Trevor has experience leading large state multistate actions and helped draft legislation in Texas that increased civil penalty amounts for antitrust violations.

Trevor obtained his J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law and holds an LL.M. in International Law from The University of Texas School of Law. He also holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Kansas and majored in English Literature and Philosophy at Southern Methodist University.

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Jennifer E. Sturiale

Professor Jennifer Sturiale teaches Civil Procedure and Property.  Her scholarship focuses on issues of civil procedure, complex litigation, intellectual property, antitrust, and issues at the intersection of these disciplines. Her scholarship has been published in the Alabama Law Review, the Utah Law Review, and the University of Illinois Law Review, among others.

Professor Sturiale is a dedicated teacher. She has taught first-year legal research and writing as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. She has also taught Civil Procedure, Property, Intellectual Property, and Advanced Antitrust Economics and the Law.

She is also an accomplished litigator. As a member of the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP, and subsequently Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, her practice focused primarily on complex commercial litigation involving antitrust and intellectual property matters.

Professor Sturiale received a B.A. magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University and a JD magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was an Executive Articles Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal and was a member of the Order of the Coif. After receiving her JD, Professor Sturiale served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.