Bilal Sayyed

Bilal Sayyed is senior competition counsel at TechFreedom and counsel at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP. His work focuses on antitrust law, competition policy, merger review, and consumer-protection enforcement.

Sayyed also serves as a faculty associate teaching antitrust law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University and has taught antitrust law for many years as an adjunct professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.

Before returning to private practice, Sayyed served as director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In that role, he helped develop and implement the agency’s long-term competition and consumer-protection policy initiatives and advised Commission staff on cases raising complex legal and policy issues.

Earlier in his career, Sayyed was a partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP, and at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He also served as counsel at O’Melveny & Myers LLP.

Earlier, Sayyed worked at the FTC as attorney adviser to Chairman Timothy Muris and as an attorney in the Office of Policy Planning. In those roles, he advised on antitrust and consumer-protection policy and enforcement matters.

He began his legal career as a law clerk and associate at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and earlier as a law clerk at Collier Shannon Rill & Scott.

Sayyed earned a J.D. from George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and a bachelor’s from Case Western Reserve University.