Brian Benczkowski, who served for two years as the Trump-appointed head of the U.S. Justice Department’s criminal division, is returning to Kirkland & Ellis as a partner in the firm’s Washington office.

Benczkowski stepped down in July as the Senate-confirmed assistant attorney general, capping a tenure marked by corporate enforcement policies that were seen as providing leniency to companies and by a controversial decision to not open a campaign finance investigation into President Donald Trump over his dealings with Ukraine.

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