Top Justice Department antitrust lawyer Bill Baer is returning to Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, where he led the antitrust practice for several years, the firm said Wednesday.

Baer was chief of the antitrust division at Justice from 2013 to 2016 and was the agency's last acting associate attorney general under President Barack Obama and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

“Arnold & Porter—there's always been a special place in my heart,” he said. “There's just no better or talented group of antitrust lawyers than I've ever encountered.”