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Simpson Thacher nabs Matt Reilly, former assistant director of FTC

 |  May 31, 2012

Matt Reilly, former Assistant Director of the Federal Trade Commission, is joining Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Reilly will partner the firm’s Antitrust Practice and be based in its D.C. office. His move comes after 13 years at the FTC, where he was the lead litigator in high-profile cases like the agency’s challenge to the Whole Foods-Wild Oats merger. From 2007, Reilly served as head of the Mergers IV decision.

Full content: The Blog of Legal Times

 

Related content: Changing Emphasis: How Whole Foods Advances the FTC’s Efforts to Transform Merger Litigation (Deborah Feinstein & William Baer, Arnold & Porter)

 

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