Elio Gonzalez, a former Commerce Department attorney, has joined Alston & Bird as counsel in the Washington D.C. office, Gonzalez announced on LinkedIn. Gonzalez worked at Commerce for the past six years, joining as an attorney in 2019 and rising to assistant chief counsel in September 2024 before departing from the agency. Prior to joining Commerce, Gonzalez served as an attorney at CBP in Long Beach, California, for nearly five years.

Alexander Fried, trade attorney at the Commerce Department, has left the agency, he announced on LinkedIn. Fried worked as an attorney adviser at Commerce since September 2022, advising the International Trade Administration on various issues, including digital service taxes, implementing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, UFLPA litigation, and trade remedies investigations and litigation.

Ted Posner, former assistant general counsel for international affairs at the Treasury Department, has joined Baker Botts as a partner in the international trade practice, the firm announced. Posner joined Treasury in October 2020, where he led a group of Treasury attorneys in advising agency officials on issues ranging from investment security to trade (see 2507150010).

Ted Posner, former assistant general counsel for international affairs at the Treasury Department, has joined Baker Botts as a partner in the international trade practice, the firm announced. Posner joined Treasury in October 2020, advising various agency officials on issues ranging from investment security to trade, Baker Botts said. Prior to joining Treasury, Posner worked as a partner at Weil Gotshal for eight years and at Crowell & Moring for three years.

James Treanor, former attorney-adviser in the Office of Foreign Assets Control's chief counsel's office, has joined Akin as a senior counsel, he announced on LinkedIn. Treanor will help clients with international trade and national security-related regulatory and enforcement issues, including those related to sanctions and export controls. He left OFAC in June.

Adam Szubin, former head of the Treasury Department’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control, has joined Covington, where he will work on sanctions, export controls, money laundering and investment security issues. Szubin, who mostly served in the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, was most recently a lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell.

Mayur Patel, former chief international trade counsel to the chair of the Senate Finance Committee, has joined Hogan Lovells as a partner in the international trade and investment practice, the firm announced. As a Senate staffer, Patel played a key role in overseeing "major Trump-era trade measures," the firm said. Prior to joining the Senate, Patel worked as associate general counsel in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

Scott Wise, former assistant general counsel for global trade at Microsoft, has joined Crowell & Moring as a partner in the international trade group, the firm announced. At Microsoft, Wise was the lead attorney on economic sanctions and outbound investment issues regarding emerging technologies, such as AI and quantum computing, the firm said.

Matthew Ferraro, a former senior counselor for cybersecurity and emerging technology to the DHS secretary, has joined Crowell & Moring's Privacy and Cybersecurity Group. Ferraro will advise on a range of issues that intersect with national security, including matters before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.

Vanessa Sisti left DOJ as the assistant chief of the Fraud Section's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Unit to join Sony, she announced last week on LinkedIn. Sisti has worked as a federal prosecutor since 2013.