Senior DOJ Antitrust Official Steps Down, Joins Fried Frank (1)

The No. 2 official in the Justice Department’s antitrust division has left government to return to private practice after a three-year stint helping lead many of the biggest merger investigations of the Trump administration.

Barry Nigro, who was the division’s principal deputy assistant attorney general, is returning to his old law firm, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in Washington, where he will chair the global antitrust practice, the firm announced Monday.

Barry Nigro

Source: U.S. Department of Justice

Nigro joined the antitrust division from Fried Frank in August 2017, about three months before the administration sued to block AT&T Inc.’s acquisition of Time ...