Brendan Ballou

Former Special Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division

Brendan Ballou is a former special Counsel at U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, where he served from 2020-2025. He is also the author of Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America.

Previously, he worked in private practice, and before that, in the National Security Division of the Justice Department, where he advised the White House on counterterrorism and other policies. He graduated from Columbia University and Stanford Law School.

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