US boutique Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider have hired former FTC official Morris Bloom, adding bench depth to the firm’s Washington, DC, and New York offices.
Sorcha O’Carroll has joined the London office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as an associate in its competition group. O’Carroll moved from McMillan in Toronto.
Venable has hired Robert Davis, former attorney adviser to US Federal Trade Commission chairman Jon Leibowitz, as counsel in its Washington, DC antitrust practice.
Warth & Klein Grant Thornton, the German branch of accountancy group Grant Thornton, has expanded its trustee and competition services practice in Hamburg, hiring Gunnar Oldehaver and Eva Romswinkel.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has promoted Franklin Rubinstein to partner in its Washington, DC antitrust practice. He will begin in his new role in February.
Competition specialist Tito Amaral de Andrade, at Machado Meyer Sendacz Opice in São Paulo, has been elected president of Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos de Concorrência (IBRAC), a Brazilian competition association.