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Apr. 27, 2023

FTC chief defends aggressive action on mergers, noncompete clauses

“We are fully activating the tools that Congress gave us,” FTC Chair Lina M. Khan said during event at Berkeley.

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina M. Khan, defending the agency’s proposal for a nationwide ban on noncompete clauses, held up California as a model during a Wednesday conversation at a conference sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Center for Law and Business.

“California is a great illustration of how we’ve had a very innovative state economy without noncompetes,” Khan told UC Berkeley School of Law professor David Singh Grewal in a remote appe...

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