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Antitrust news
From legaltimes.com . . .
Both suggest possibilities of hiring, although moving to Belgium might not be first on anyone's list of destinations.
NO WAFFLING ON BELGIUM
Arnold & Porter is taking another leap across the pond, with plans to open a Brussels office at summer's end. Led by antitrust lawyer Marleen Van Kerckhove, the new outpost "will dramatically strengthen our European competition team," says William Baer, head of the D.C. antitrust group. The office will kick off with about a half-dozen lawyers. "We had been considering this for a long time," adds Baer, who will spend time in Belgium helping to establish the firm's second European branch. A&P set up shop in London in 1997.
— Lily Henning
PAUL, WEISS GETS COMPETITIVE
It's official: Outgoing Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition Director Joseph Simons has joined the D.C. office of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. The addition of Simons, who was a partner at Clifford Chance before he moved to the FTC in 2001, marks a bid by Paul, Weiss to expand its 20-lawyer D.C. office. "We expect to attract additional people, associates, and partners, and have a major antitrust practice in Washington," says Paul, Weiss chairman Alfred Youngwood. Simons says he considered rejoining Clifford Chance, which he describes as a "wonderful" firm, but was attracted by the opportunity to build a practice at Paul, Weiss.
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