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Jonathan Sallet

Since 2020, Jonathan Sallet has served as special assistant attorney general with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, where he is lead counsel for a coalition of states and territories in the on-going Google Search antitrust action. He is a senior research fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center at the Harvard Kennedy School where he co-teaches the course “Big Tech and Competition”. His earlier governmental positions included service as deputy assistant attorney general for litigation, Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission.
Antitrust and Competition

Defending the Merger Efficiency Defense: A Response to Herbert Hovenkamp

Nancy Rose
Nancy L. Rose and Jonathan Sallet respond to a recent article by Herbert Hovenkamp, in which he argues that the merger-efficiencies defense, which requires merging parties to demonstrate competitive benefits of a merger in order to rebut a prima facie case of harm presented by plaintiffs, is too burdensome and runs contrary to empirical evidence.

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