Senior DOJ Consumer Protection Enforcer Rao to Join Mayer Brown

A senior official in the Justice Department’s consumer protection branch will join Mayer Brown in October, the firm said Thursday.

Arun Rao served as deputy assistant attorney general for the branch for more than three years before leaving in August. He’ll be a partner in Mayer Brown’s Washington, DC, office where the Chicago-born firm has been building its corporate investigations team with government hires.

Rao will work in the firm’s investigations and white collar practice, starting Oct. 28. He said he’ll guide companies and executives in the pharmaceutical and consumer products sectors, two active areas for the consumer protection branch. ...