US DoJ antitrust lawyer takes up New York-based Cravath post

Cravath Swaine & Moore is strengthening its antitrust team with the hire of Christine Varney, a key player in the Obama administration's efforts to shore up the 
nation's antitrust enforcement efforts, from the Department 
of Justice (DoJ).

Varney is due to join Cravath's New York office on 6 September, having taken her post as assistant attorney general of the department's antitrust division in April 2009.