FTC Commissioner Who Resigned in Protest Joins Freshfields (1)

Christine Wilson, the Republican Federal Trade Commissioner who last year resigned in protest over chair Lina Khan’s ambitious antitrust agenda, has landed at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, the firm said Thursday.

Wilson will be a senior adviser at the UK-founded firm, which counts Alphabet Inc. and United Airlines as major antitrust clients. The firm is representing Alphabet in the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to break up the tech giant’s ad tech business over alleged illegal monopolization.

Wilson left the FTC last March after claiming that her colleagues censored her in a vote over whether Khan needed to recuse herself from a ...