Bloomberg Law
Feb. 14, 2018, 11:39 PM UTC

Former Top U.S. Antitrust Official to Join Law Firm

Elizabeth Olson
Elizabeth Olson
Special Correspondent

A former top Justice Department antitrust official will rejoin the private sector just as his old unit heads to trial over the government’s decision to block AT&T’s proposed $85 billion merger with Time Warner.

Eric Mahr left his position as the antitrust division’s litigation director in November, and plans to become a partner at the global law firm, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in March, the same month DOJ will square off in court with the two communications giants.

Mahr said he’d recused himself from the AT&T merger matter, which was announced in October 2016, from the outset because of a client ...

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