William Kovacic says Barack Obama’s criticism of the Bush administration antitrust enforcement record was little more than politicking and that the past three years have been a continuation, not an overhaul, of the US enforcement programme. David Vascott in Washington, DC.

Antitrust specialist Hugh Hollman will re-join Jones Day on 1 August in the firm’s Palo Alto office.

President Barack Obama has nominated Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP partner Maureen Ohlhausen to the US Federal Trade Commission. Ohlhausen is set to take over from FTC Commissioner William Kovacic, whose term on the commission expires in September.