Noah Joshua Phillips
Partner & Co-Chair
Antitrust Practice
Cravath
Noah Joshua Phillips is a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and co-chair of the firm’s Antitrust Practice. His work focuses on antitrust litigation, merger review, regulatory investigations, consumer protection, privacy, and emerging issues in technology markets, including artificial intelligence.
Before returning to private practice, Phillips served as a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). During his tenure, he participated in numerous merger and conduct investigations across a wide range of industries, including consumer products, defense, energy, entertainment, health care, technology, pharmaceuticals, and retail. His antitrust opinions were consistently upheld by federal appellate courts. He also represented the FTC before international bodies, including the G7, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Competition Committee, and the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, and testified frequently before Congress.
Prior to his service at the FTC, Phillips worked on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee as chief counsel to Sen. John Cornyn and previously as counsel to Cornyn. In those roles, he advised on antitrust, constitutional law, consumer privacy, and intellectual-property policy, as well as judicial nominations.
Earlier in his career, Phillips was an associate at Steptoe & Johnson LLP and previously an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. He also clerked for Judge Edward C. Prado of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Phillips began his professional career as an analyst at the investment bank Wasserstein Perella & Co.
He has been recognized by The Legal 500 and The Best Lawyers in America for his work in antitrust litigation and merger control, and Benchmark Litigation has named him a “Litigation Star.”
Phillips earned a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a bachelor’s, magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
