Candice Andalia has joined Kirkland & Ellis as the firm's new litigation partner in the Washington, D.C. office, according to the firm's website. Andalia joins Kirkland from Orrick Herrington; she specializes in "managing and coordinating national defense and strategy for clients in the manufacturing, technology, and financial sectors," it said.
Kenneth Juster, former U.S. ambassador to India under President Donald Trump, joined Freshfields as senior counselor in its New York office, the firm said a July 7 news release. He will work on cross-border and regulatory matters with a focus on U.S. and Indian issues, the release said.
Stu Seidel, a customs lawyer at Baker McKenzie for the past 19 years, retired, the firm said in a July newsletter. Seidel joined the firm in 2001 as a partner in the firm's International Trade group and was editor of the Baker McKenzie International Trade Compliance Update newsletter. Seidel previously was assistant commissioner for the U.S. Customs Service, now known as CBP.
Cynthia Whittenburg, who retired as CBP deputy executive assistant commissioner in the Office of Trade earlier this year (see 2102090059), joined the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America Educational Institute (NEI) as an associate director, the trade association said in an emailed July 6 news release. Whittenburg will “assist in expanding the delivery of our content though institutions of higher learning as well as other appropriate avenues as well as assist in the development of additional courses needed to continue our mission,” NEI Executive Director Kiko Zuniga said. “Some of these courses will deal with current issues such as forced labor, USMCA, to name a few.” While at CBP, Whittenburg helped in examining the need for continuing education requirements for customs brokers (see 1910160056), an issue that CBP is still working on and that the NEI is following closely (see 2105040004).
D. Michael Kaye has joined Squire Patton as a partner in the firm's international trade practice and commodities and shipping industry group, the firm announced in a June 28 press release. Kaye most recently was global director of business management at Baker McKenzie. Before that, he was chief counsel to Archer Daniels Midland Company's largest business unit. Kaye will work on international trade remedy cases with Squire Patton and provide legal services for international trade and shipping for all commodity sectors, the firm said.
Former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has joined the board of directors of American Compass, the conservative think tank announced in a June 17 press release. Lighthizer served as USTR in the Trump administration, 2017-21, after 30 years as a trade lawyer at Skadden Arps. He also worked as chief of staff of the Senate Committee on Finance under Chairman Bob Dole, R-Kan.
Former Sidley Austin partner Brian Nester joined Covington & Burling as a partner in its Washington, D.C.-based patent litigation practice, the firm announced in a June 15 press release. Nester has litigated extensively before the International Trade Commission and federal district courts across the country.
Paul Marquardt joined Davis Polk as a partner in its Washington, D.C.-based Financial Institutions Group, the firm announced in a June 14 news release. Marquardt previously led the foreign investment and national security practice at Cleary Gottlieb, where he worked with the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control and the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security.
Mehlman Castagnetti hired Alex Perkins, who was most recently senior manager of international government affairs at Stellantis, previously known as Fiat Chrysler, the lobbying firm said in a June 8 news release. “A top expert in trade, customs and supply chain policy, Perkins developed and executed a government relations and public affairs strategy to guide the Fortune 500 automaker through the NAFTA/USMCA renegotiations and helped lead the multi-sector USMCA business coalition,” the firm said. Before joining the auto industry, Perkins was counsel for the House Ways and Means Committee and for Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.
The Peterson Institute for International Economics has hired former European Union Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom as a nonresident senior fellow. She will host PIIE’s biweekly Trade Winds webcast, it said.