HPE Hires Beth Wilkinson to Fight DOJ’s Blocking Juniper Buy (1)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. retained Beth Wilkinson to serve as the company’s lead lawyer in defending its $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks Inc. from a challenge by the US Justice Department.

Wilkinson is one of the country’s more prominent litigators, having left the partnership at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in 2016 to start her own boutique, now called Wilkinson Stekloff. She helped Microsoft Corp. score a 2023 trial victory securing its $69 billion buy of video game maker Activision Blizzard Inc. Visa Inc. hired Wilkinson last year to represent the credit card giant in another antitrust case ...