Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, LAW FIRM NEWS: FTC official Jonathan Klarfeld joins Ropes & Gray in Washington, D.C., (Aug 18, 2014)

Jonathan S. Klarfeld, a veteran antitrust enforcer who served at the FTC for the last 13 years, has joined Ropes & Gray as a partner in its antitrust practice, according to an August 18 announcement. He will be based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.

At the FTC, Klarfeld supervised and led milestone antitrust cases, most recently as Deputy Assistant Director of the Mergers I Division. He has overseen matters in several merger and non-merger divisions and has participated in antitrust investigations of mergers and acquisitions in the medical devices, medical testing, Internet advertising, pharmaceutical, hospital, high technology, food products, and defense industries. Klarfeld has won several awards for his work at the agency, including the FTC’s Excellence in Supervision Award. He has taken part in technical assistance missions for the FTC in Mexico and Vietnam.

Klarfeld has served as a special assistant U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, where he participated in all aspects of criminal prosecutions, including arraignments, plea negotiations, trials, oral arguments, witness preparations, and sentencings.

A graduate of Brown University (A.B) and New York University School of Law (J.D.), Klarfeld was a judicial law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He began his legal career in private practice as a litigation associate at Reboul, MacMurray, Hewitt, Maynard & Kristol, a firm that is now part of Ropes & Gray.

Built around veterans of the U.S. Department of Justice and the FTC, the Ropes & Gray antitrust practice provides clients with representation across the full range of antitrust matters.

Ropes & Gray LLP has more than 1,100 lawyers and legal professionals serving clients in major centers of business, finance, technology and government. The firm has offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, London, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Seoul. It has leading practices in many areas, including private equity, M&A, life sciences, health care, finance, investment management, hedge funds, tax, intellectual property, litigation, securities litigation, government enforcement, and privacy & data security.

Attorneys: Johnathan S. Klarfeld (Ropes & Gray LLP)

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