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.
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.
Joseph Barloon, former Office the U.S. Trade Representative official, has rejoined Skadden Arps as a partner in the firm's Washington, D.C., office, the law firm announced in a March 1 news release. Barloon served as general counsel from 2019 to 2020 and then as acting deputy USTR from 2020 to 2021, overseeing litigation against the U.S.'s largest trading partners and implementation of the USMCA. Barloon was nominated to be a judge at the Court of International Trade by President Donald Trump but wasn't confirmed (see 2102050032).
Former deputy U.S. trade representative C.J. Mahoney joined Microsoft as deputy general counsel for U.S. international trade and Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing service, according to Mahoney's LinkedIn page. Mahoney served as deputy USTR for two years from 2018 to 2020 and was previously a partner at Williams & Connolly.
International trade lawyer Matthew Kanna is joining Greenberg Traurig as shareholder in the firm's international trade wing of its Washington, D.C. office. Kanna most recently ran his own firm but previously was a lawyer at Arent Fox with its international trade group and regularly practices in the areas of trade remedy and customs proceedings. According to a Feb. 26 press release, Kanna also has experience disrupting competitors' supply chains by combining government agency actions.
Friederike Gorgens, previously with Arent Fox, joined Greenberg Traurig as of counsel in the firm's international trade practice. At Arent Fox, Gorgens was listed as one of the litigators in the case challenging lists 3 and 4A of the Section 301 China tariffs. Arent Fox is one of the largest law firms involved in the litigation, representing more than 50 of the lawsuits against the tariffs.
Andrea Delisi, former assistant chief counsel in the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, joined Morrison & Foerster in its National Security and Global Risk + Crisis Management groups, the firm announced Feb. 10. She previously advised OFAC on legal issues including the office's economic sanctions programs involving Venezuela, Syria, Iran, human rights, corruption and terrorism.
CBP Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner in the Office of Trade Cynthia Whittenburg retired at the end of January, an agency spokesman said. CBP recently started seeking applicants for the position.