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HEALTH. Specialty drug company Circassia Pharmaceuticals recently hired Winning Strategies Washington to work on drug pricing legislation, according to disclosures. Mike Merola, former deputy chief of...
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Joel Elliott, former chief of staff to Rep. Abby Finkenauer (D-Iowa), is now the director of federal affairs at Salesforce. He was chief of staff to ex-Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.). After Donnelly lost...
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Wilkinson Barker Knauer named Alex Damato lead policy adviser. Damato was legislative director to Rep. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.). He previously was a tech adviser and senior legislative assistant to...
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Squire Patton Boggs announced former Colorado GOP state Rep. Cole Wist is returning to the firm. He will be of counsel in the environmental, safety and health practice and based in Denver. Cole was an...
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Yolanda Brignoni will join Subject Matter as vice president of client services. She previously led integrated communications campaigns and crisis response for the health team at AARP. Yagmur Cosar is...
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• Ivan Adler, a lobbying headhunter, left the McCormick Group on Friday after 23 years. On Tuesday, he launched Ivan Adler Associates, a boutique search firm specializing in government relations and...
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• Anthony Campau, former chief of staff and counselor in the U.S. Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget, joined Clark Hill’s government and public affairs...
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TRADE. Citigroup Washington recently hired Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas to work on President Trump’s new North American trade agreement, financial reform rules, housing finance reform,...
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• Former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Christopher Giancarlo is joining the Chamber of Digital Commerce’s advisory board. He was nominated to CFTC by then-President Obama and...
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ENERGY. Alberta-Texas Energy Ventures Inc., a Houston-based oil and gas exploration and development company, recently hired Clark Hill to work on oil and gas development opportunities and strategy,...
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Arnold & Porter named Allon Kedem, former assistant to the U.S. solicitor general at the Department of Justice, as a partner in its appellate and Supreme Court practice. S-3 Group announced Howard...
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HEALTH CARE. Intact Vascular, Inc., a manufacturer of products to treat peripheral artery disease, hired Liberty Partners Group to work on physician payment and policy issues relating to the disease....
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BWX Technologies, Inc. promoted Suzy Sterner to senior vice president for government relations. She was vice president for government relations since January and previously was the senior director of...
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Lowenstein Sandler announced that partner Zarema A. Jaramillo will be the head of the Washington, D.C., office, effective Jan. 1. She is currently a partner in the antitrust and trade regulation...
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• Former Rep. Christopher Carney (D-Pa.) is joining Nossaman LLP in its government relations and regulation group. He will be a senior policy adviser in the Washington, D.C., office and joins Nossaman...
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Balch & Bingham announced Brian Rell will lead the firm’s federal public policy and government relations practice, effective Nov. 1. Rell was Rep. Robert Aderholt’s (R-Ala.) chief of staff for 11...
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Caitlin Hayden was named senior vice president for communications at BAE Systems. She previously was vice president of communications for the Aerospace Industries Association and before that worked at...
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• Hun Quach was named senior director of government relations at Under Armour. She was previously vice president of international trade at the Retail Industry Leaders Association and before that...
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• Doug Schwartz, former partner at CGCN Group, is launching his own lobbying shop, HillNorth LLC. He was at CGCN for five years and before that was chief of staff to the Senate Republican Conference...
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Dan Farmer, senior director of government relations at Cleveland Clinic, will join BGR Government Affairs as a vice president in January. Farmer will be in BGR’s access and reimbursement working group....
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