FTC Hires Former DOJ Lawyer Who Helped Build Google Search Case

David Shaw, a Morrison & Foerster LLP partner and former Justice Department lawyer who helped bring an antitrust action against Alphabet Inc.’s Google, is joining the Federal Trade Commission as a senior appointee.

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson tapped Shaw to be a principal deputy director, the agency said Tuesday. Shaw’s hiring came along with the appointment of Kelse Moen, a senior counsel to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), as deputy director of the FTC’s competition bureau.

Ferguson also tapped Doug Geho—a former lead attorney for the House Judiciary Committee and most recently an attorney adviser to Republican FTC commissioner Melissa Holyoak—as ...