Big Tech in Spotlight as Ex-FTC Head Joins Silicon Valley Firm

A former leader at the Federal Trade Commission is joining Silicon Valley-based law firm Wilson Sonsini as the tech industry comes under increased scrutiny from the Biden administration’s antitrust regime.

Maureen Ohlhausen, who was an FTC commissioner from 2012 to 2018 and served as acting chairman for the last year and a half of her tenure, left Baker Botts Jan. 5 to join Wilson Sonsini. The firm’s big clients have included Alphabet Inc. and TikTok Inc.

Ohlhausen joins at a time of aggressive competition regulation. The FTC and Justice Department brought a combined 50 merger enforcement actions in fiscal year ...