Alexander P. Okuliar

Alex Okuliar is co-chair of Morrison Foerster’s Global Antitrust Law Practice Group. A former Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) official, Alex draws on two decades of experience with mergers, government investigations, and litigation to represent clients in high-profile and high-stakes antitrust matters.

From 2020 to 2021, Alex served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Enforcement in the DOJ Antitrust Division. In this role, he supervised more than 150 attorneys and staff responsible for merger and conduct investigations and enforcement actions across a range of industries. His most notable public investigations and actions include the agency’s review of digital platforms, its landmark monopolization case against Google, and the creation of the Civil Conduct Task Force. He also oversaw numerous merger investigations, including the $180 billion merger of United Technologies and Raytheon, Waste Management’s $4.6 billion acquisition of Advanced Disposal Services, Liberty Latin America’s $1.95 billion purchase of AT&T’s Puerto Rico wireless and wireline business, and Google’s $2 billion acquisition of Fitbit.

Earlier in his career, Alex served as an attorney advisor to an FTC Commissioner and a trial attorney in the Networks & Technology Enforcement Section of the DOJ Antitrust Division.

Before his service as a DOJ Deputy AAG, Alex was a partner at another leading international firm. Alex regularly represents clients before federal, state, and foreign authorities in connection with government investigations of conduct and mergers. He also has extensive experience litigating antitrust disputes, particularly those related to conduct involving technology companies and issues at the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property. Alex also regularly represents clients advocating on antitrust and competition enforcement policy issues.

Alex is also active in the bar. He currently serves as the co-chair of the Joint Conduct Committee of the ABA Antitrust Law Section and is the former co-chair of the Section’s Intellectual Property Committee. He writes and speaks frequently on important issues relating to technology and antitrust enforcement.

Alex received his B.S. in economics and B.A. with distinction in history from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School.