DOJ’s National Security Division this week announced the appointment of Ian Richardson as the agency’s first chief counsel for corporate enforcement and Christian Nauvel as the new deputy chief counsel for corporate enforcement. They will oversee the division’s investigation and prosecution of national security-related corporate crime, DOJ said, and are a part of the agency’s efforts to add more than 25 new prosecutors to investigate and prosecute sanctions and export control violations (see 2303070023).

Andrew Adams, former acting deputy assistant attorney general for DOJ's National Security Division, has joined Steptoe & Johnson as a partner in the Investigations and White-Collar Defense Practice in New York, the firm announced. Adams worked as the first director of Task Force KleptoCapture -- the interagency group tasked with enforcing U.S. sanctions on Russia in wake of the invasion of Ukraine. At DOJ, he also oversaw efforts pertaining to economic sanctions, export controls and cyber offenses tied to nation-state actors, the firm said.

Tarsha Phillibert, former trial attorney at DOJ in the fraud section, has joined Duane Morris as a partner in the Washington, D.C.-based trial practice group, the firm announced. At DOJ, Phillibert prosecuted international white-collar crimes including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, money laundering, wire fraud, healthcare fraud and the Bank Secrecy Act, the firm said.

Cynthia Allen left FedEx Logistics on Sept. 7, and will be “taking some time off with family and friends to lazily contemplate my next career move,” she said in a post on LinkedIn. Allen, a former member of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) who had previously led CBP’s ACE Business Office, was vice president of regulatory affairs and compliance at the company.

Bryant Trick, a career staffer at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, was named acting assistant USTR for Europe and the Middle East. Before this appointment, announced Sept. 5, Trick served as deputy assistant USTR for Korea. The new role covers the EU, the rest of Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa.

The Federal Maritime Commission this week named Cindy Hennigan deputy managing director, a role in which she will help oversee the FMC’s “administrative functions” and advise the commission’s managing director. Hennigan previously was director of the FMC Bureau of Certification and Licensing.

Robert Broadbent, former acting associate general counsel for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Office of General Counsel, has joined Womble Bond as a partner in its Government Contracts and Cross-Border Trade practice. Based in the Charlottesville, Virginia, office, Broadbent will focus on "international trade and national security matters," including sanctions compliance, export control matters, foreign investment and security reviews, and trade agreement and foreign market access strategies, the firm said.

Miller & Chevalier international lawyer Christopher Stagg is co-chairing the American Bar Association's export controls and economic sanctions committee, he announced on LinkedIn. Stagg joined Miller & Chevalier in 2021 after serving as a senior policy adviser with the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls at the State Department. At Miller, he focuses on export controls, economic sanctions and Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. matters.

Kenneth Polite, former assistant attorney general for DOJ's Criminal Division, will join Sidley on Oct. 1 as a partner and co-leader of its white collar government litigation and investigations practice. Polite's practice will center on "white collar criminal defense, investigation, and compliance matters," Sidley said. For the past two years, Polite has been working in his Senate-confirmed position at DOJ, leading a team of over 1,400 attorneys and staff responsible for carrying out criminal investigations of securities fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, money laundering offenses and public corruption, the firm said. Polite previously served as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Consultant CT Strategies hired former DHL Express executive Gordon Wright to be executive director of its European operations, the company announced this week. Wright, former vice president of customs and regulatory affairs at DHL and a former official with the European Commission, will help CT Strategies improve its “customs and trade facilitation expertise globally.”