Bracewell LLP announced today that Seth M. Barsky has joined the firm’s environment, lands and resources department as a partner in the Washington, DC office. Barsky joins after a distinguished career with the US Department of Justice (DOJ), where he served for over three decades and held senior roles within the Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD), most recently as Deputy Assistant Attorney General (DAAG).

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Vinson & Elkins announced today that C.J. Polito has joined the firm as a Washington, D.C.-based partner in the firm’s Energy Regulatory Practice. Polito joins from Sidley Austin, where he was an Energy Regulatory partner. 

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced today that David Higbee, Ben Gris and Djordje Petkoski, three of the nation’s leading antitrust advisors, are joining the firm in Washington as partners in the Antitrust Practice. Higbee, Gris and Petkoski provide strategic antitrust counseling and advise on merger control matters, government and internal investigations, and complex litigation. Their experience spans multiple industries, including energy, technology, financial services, life sciences and defense.

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Jennifer Kennedy Gellie, a veteran national security and white-collar enforcement attorney who most recently served as Chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section in the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), has joined Pillsbury as a partner in its International Trade group in Washington, D.C., which is consistently ranked by Chambers and Legal 500 as among the elite practices worldwide for International Trade and National Security matters, including the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and foreign investment, customs compliance and enforcement, export controls, economic sanctions, trade remedies, trade policy, and high profile investigations.

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Andrew Knudsen, an accomplished litigator at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environmental Defense Section, has joined McGuireWoods as a partner in Washington, D.C. Before joining the DOJ in 2020, Knudsen was an associate at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, where he counseled clients on environmental compliance and represented them in administrative rulemaking and permit proceedings, federal environmental litigation and civil tort suits involving environmental issues.

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Former U.S. Department of State official Ambassador Nathan Sales has joined Holland & Knight as a partner in its Public Policy & Regulation Group, as well as National Security & Defense Industry Group. Immediately prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ambassador Sales was the founder and principal of Fillmore Global Strategies LLC, where he provided clients in the U.S. and abroad with legal and strategic advice on a range of national security and international issues.

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