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Obama taps Baer to be DOJ antitrust chief

by Ira Teinowitz in Washington  |  Published February 6, 2012 at 10:14 AM
Obama-taps-former-FTC-official-to-be-DOJ-antitrust-chief227.jpgPresident Obama on Friday night, Feb. 3, said he would nominate William Baer, a former top Federal Trade Commission competition official, to be Christine Varney's replacement as assistant attorney general for antitrust.

Sharis Pozen, acting head of the Justice Department's antitrust division and Varney's former chief of staff, had earlier announced she would leave the Justice Department in April.

Varney left in August to join Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.

Baer, who is the chair of the antitrust practice group at Arnold and Porter LLP, was director of the Bureau of Competition at the FTC from 1995 to 1999.

He had been mentioned along with Varney as one of the possible candidates for the DOJ antitrust post when after Obama was elected. The nomination needs Senate confirmation.

Obama also said Friday that he would nominate Jeremiah O. Norton for a vacant position on the board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Norton, currently executive director of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and an adviser to financial institutions on mergers and acquisitions, was deputy assistant secretary for financial institutions policy at the Department of Treasury in the Bush administration from 2007 to 2009, and a former assistant to Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif.
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