Hunton & Williams has moved quickly to fill the vacancy left by Washington managing partner David Higbee last week.

After Higbee unexpectedly resigned to join Shearman & Sterling—taking four other antitrust partners with him—the firm named Wendell Taylor to replace him as head of the D.C. office.

Taylor is a 45-year-old former federal prosecutor now specializing in defending companies in antitrust litigation. He built his career at Hunton & Williams before working at the Justice Department for then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey and for the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office.