Marc Schildkraut is the newest partner to join Baker & Hostetler’s antitrust and competition practice in Washington, D.C., leaving Cooley after seven years as a partner there.

Schildkraut is a former assistant director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition who led investigations involving hundreds of merger transactions, federal court injunction actions and administrative litigation matters, according to his new firm. He spent 17 years at the FTC before leaving in 1993.