Business woman leaping.A few big lateral hires from the government caught my eye on Monday.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison announced that Andrew Finch rejoined the firm as co-chair of the antitrust practice from the Justice Department, where he was a senior official in the Antitrust Division. As principal deputy assistant attorney general and acting assistant attorney general, Finch oversaw dozens of merger reviews, supervised multiple investigations and litigations and negotiated civil and criminal settlements.