WASHINGTON, July 20 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden nominated lawyer and Google critic Jonathan Kanter as the Justice Department’s antitrust chief on Tuesday in the latest sign the White House is determined to rein in the world’s biggest corporations, especially Big Tech.

Progressives who advocate tougher enforcement of antitrust law pushed for the nomination of Kanter, who recently started his own law firm, Kanter Law Group LLP, which bills itself as an “antitrust advocacy boutique.”

The White House called Kanter “a leading advocate and expert in the effort to promote strong and meaningful antitrust enforcement and competition policy.”

He has spent years representing rivals of Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O), which the Justice Department sued last year, alleging that it broke antitrust law in seeking to hobble rivals. read more

The Biden administration previously chose two antitrust progressives with tech expertise, Tim Wu for the National Economic Council and Lina Khan to be a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. read more

Sarah Miller, executive director of the American Economic Liberties Project, said Kanter “has crafted many of the most successful legal arguments driving the major antitrust investigations into Big Tech.”