Bruce McDonald

Partner at Jones Day

Speaker

Bruce McDonald represents energy, transportation, and telecommunications companies in antitrust government investigations and enforcement actions, merger reviews, and antitrust private litigation. He has worked extensively in related sectors, including petroleum and petrochemicals, oilfield services, electricity, aviation, satellite communications, and media.

Bruce served as deputy assistant attorney general with the U.S. Department of Justice from 2003 to 2007, where he was responsible for civil merger and conduct investigations and enforcement. The Attorney General appointed Bruce to serve as DOJ’s representative on the Electric Energy Competition Task Force created by Congress in the Energy Policy Act. He was also part of the U.S. delegation that negotiated the “open skies” agreement between the U.S. and European Union.

Bruce is past chair of the State Bar of Texas’ Antitrust & Business Litigation Section. He previously served as chair of the ABA Antitrust Section’s Transportation & Energy Committee and chairman of the Houston Bar Association’s Antitrust Section. Bruce has testified before committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and speaks and writes on antitrust law enforcement and policy. He graduated from The University of Texas School of Law and has taught antitrust and trade regulation as an adjunct professor at The University of Houston Law Center. He is ranked Band 1 by Chambers and was named in Lawdragon’s 2025 “500 Leading Litigators in America.” In 2019 and 2023 he was named Houston Antitrust Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers. He is editor of PLI’s 2020 Antitrust Law Answer Book.