King & Spalding has hired WENDY HUANG WASZMER—former assistant chief of the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust division—as a partner in New York, where she will play a major role in the development of the firm’s antitrust practice.
Waszmer says she chose King & Spalding because of its experience in criminal and antitrust work, as well as its long history of hiring former prosecutors. In February, the firm brought back Gary Grindler following his stints as the Justice Department’s acting deputy attorney general and chief of staff to Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. Ross Nadel, a federal prosecutor who had worked in the U.S. attorney’s offices in both the northern and eastern Districts of California, also returned to King & Spalding in 2010, while former Justice Department attorney Alexander Haas joined the firm’s Washington, D.C., office in 2011.
