Former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Illinois Shoba Pillay joined Jenner & Block's Chicago office, the firm announced in an April 13 press release. Pillay specializes in fraud, cybercrime, data privacy, export control and sanctions, trade secrets and intellectual property cases, and will bring that experience to both the investigations, compliance and defense practice and data privacy and cybersecurity practice, where she will be a partner.
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Rufus Yerxa, the leader of the National Foreign Trade Council, will be retiring in September, he told us. Yerxa, who will be 70 at the time of his exit, does plan to continue consulting or do other part-time work. He said he expects the NFTC board to have selected a replacement by its July meeting.
Bloomberg News is reporting that Sarah Bianchi, a senior managing director at Evercore ISI International, is being considered for deputy U.S. trade representative, according to anonymous sources. Bianchi, who once served as director of policy for Vice President Joe Biden, is still being vetted, the sources said. The story did not say which deputy job Bianchi would be put in, but a commissioner for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission tweeted that she would be in charge of China.
Lam Research Corp. added a semiconductor industry official and a former Bureau of Industry and Security official to its government affairs team, according to Rich Ashooh, the company's vice president of global government affairs. Lam hired Chantal Lakatos de Alcantara, BIS’s former director of nonproliferation policy, who will serve as its senior director for regulatory affairs, Ashooh said in an April 5 LinkedIn post. The company also hired Taylor Sholler, a former government affairs director with Applied Materials, who will serve as Lam’s senior director for legislative affairs. Ashooh left his senior role at BIS last year (see 2007210016).
Former World Trade Organization Deputy Director-General Alan Wolff will join the Peterson Institute for International Economics as a distinguished visiting fellow April 15. “Alan Wolff is one of the world's greatest practitioners of international trade law, applying his expertise and broad vision in private and public service to building the case for a strong, open rules-based multilateral trading system,” PIIE President Adam Posen said April 1. “Alan has been a long-time advisor to and constructive critic of the Institute's research and policy proposals in international trade, and we look forward to having him be part of our collegial give-and-take starting later this month.” Wolff will focus on WTO reforms, China's role in trade and how countries can become more prosperous through trading, Posen said.
Baker McKenzie has promoted partner Sunny Mann to global chair of the firm's International Commercial & Trade Practice Group, effective July 1, it announced in a March 23 press release. Mann, currently in the firm's London office, has been with Baker McKenzie for 21 years and has worked on a host of international trade issues, including compliance with sanctions, export controls and foreign investment rules.
Tyler McGaughey, former Treasury Department deputy assistant secretary for investment security, is joining Winston & Strawn's Washington office, the firm announced March 18. McGaughey will advise clients on Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. matters.
Daniel Ikenson, who spent 20 years at Cato Institute advocating for free trade, has joined research firm ndp analytics as director of policy research.
Brenda Smith, CBP executive assistant commissioner-trade, will retire at the end of the month, Acting CBP Commissioner Troy Miller said March 17 at the start of a Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee meeting. Also retiring soon is Steven Graham, international trade liaison in the Office of Trade Relations, COAC member Lenny Feldman said during the meeting.
Nate Bolin joined DLA Piper's Litigation and Regulatory practice as a partner in its Washington, D.C., office, the firm announced March 8. Bolin, who comes to the firm from Faegre Drinker, previously served as an international trade specialist at the International Trade Administration. He was recently reappointed to the Defense Trade Advisory Group for the 2020-2022 session. Bolin brings experience of advising clients on U.S. trade remedies, export controls, economic sanctions and Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. matters.