Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is continuing to grow its U.S. antitrust capabilities, this time bringing onboard a longtime Department of Justice official who was the counselor to another recent Freshfields hire, Eric Mahr, the former director of litigation in the DOJ’s antitrust division.

Andrew Ewalt joins Freshfields’ Washington, D.C., office as a partner after more than a decade in the DOJ, spanning three presidential administrations. He had the unusual distinction of litigating both civil and criminal antitrust cases in a division where most attorneys specialize in one or the other.