Corporate & Securities Law

On The Move: FTC Employees - And Thomas Barnett?

By David Fischer

The Deal (via law.com) reports that:

Jeff Schmidt, the top antitrust enforcer at the Federal Trade Commission, is preparing to leave the agency for a job at an international law firm in the next few months, Washington sources said.

Antitrust lawyers said Schmidt, a political appointee to the FTC, is expected to leave for Linklaters, a global firm founded in England.

Schmidt, however, said he has made no decision about his future.

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Another FTC senior staffer has confirmed plans to leave the government. Deputy general counsel John Graubert is leaving the agency to join Covington & Burling as a partner in Washington.

At the FTC, Graubert took part in a range of antitrust cases, including mergers.

The article then closes with this juciy tidbit (empahsis added):

Covington’s antitrust practice was home to Assistant Attorney General Tom Barnett before he went to the Department of Justice. Barnett is rumored to be likely to return to private practice.

Full post as published by Antitrust Review on March 04, 2008 (boomark / email).