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Linklaters Hires FTC Chief
Jeffrey Schmidt will join the firm’s New York antitrust practice.
August 7, 2008
Linklaters LLP hired Jeffrey Schmidt, a Federal Trade Commission director, as an antitrust partner at the London, U.K.-based law firm.
Schmidt was director of the FTC’s bureau of competition from 2005 until this year. Before joining the FTC, he was a partner for 15 years at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro for 15 years, which later became Pillsbury Winthrop, then merged with Shaw Pittman in 2005 to create Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.
In his new position, Schmidt will be based in New York, focused on competition and antitrust issues.
The firm’s global head of competition and antitrust, Gerwin van Gerven, said: “As competition enforcement increasingly is coordinated globally among the major agencies, Jeff’s insider’s view from one of the world’s leading antitrust jurisdictions will be of great assistance to our clients. We believe that clients coming to us for their antitrust work will value his keen insights.”
Earlier this year, the firm announced plans to strengthen the Asia antitrust practice by transferring senior partner Erik Söderlind to the Hong Kong office from Sweden.
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