Albertsons LLC has tapped a team of Dechert partners led by Paul Denis and James Fishkin—as well as Baker Botts partner Christopher MacAvoy and Schulte Roth & Zabel’s Michael Swartz—to win antitrust approval of its $9 billion acquisition of rival grocer Safeway Inc.

Safeway turned to Pennsylvania solo practitioner Richard Weisberg for antitrust counsel, according to a company spokeswoman.