Ropes & Gray Hires Two Federal Prosecutors For Enforcement Team

Ropes & Gray has hired Brian Blais and Samer Musallam, two former federal prosecutors, for its litigation and enforcement group in New York and Washington.

Blais, former general crimes unit co-chief in the Southern District of New York, joins the firm’s white collar practice in New York. Musallam, a senior counsel in the Justice Department’s antitrust division, joins the firm’s antitrust team in D.C.

The hires are meant to boost the firm’s enforcement practice as the incoming Biden administration likely increases regulatory oversight and enforcement, said Gregg Weiner, co-chair of the global litigation and enforcement practice group.

Blais and Musallam ...