Two Sidley Austin partners received number one rankings in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2012 field guide: Richard Belanger for International Trade: Customs and Andrew Shoyer for International Trade: Trade Remedies & Trade Policy.
Williams Mullen hired Robert Zuckerman, general counsel at Horizon Lines, as Of Counsel in the firm's Virginia Beach, Va., office. Zuckerman will remain vice president-law and government affairs at Horizon Lines.
Thomas Fusco, formerly supervisory attorney in the office of unfair import investigations at the International Trade Commission, was hired as counsel at Fish & Richardson.
Barbara Linney joined the Miller & Chevalier's Export Controls and Economic Sanctions practice as a Member. Linney comes to the firm from Blank Rome. Miller & Chevalier also hired Kuang Chiang from the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
The US-China Business Council elected Robert McDonald of Procter & Gamble as chair. Other new officers: Vice Chairs William Cohen, Cohen Group, and Gregory Brown, Motorola Solutions; Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Lynch, TE Connectivity; Of Counsel Andrew Shoyer, Sidley Austin; new board members Hamid Biglari, Citicorp; Marc Casper, Thermo Fisher Scientific; and Maurice Greenberg, C.V. Starr & Co.
Lowry Crook, counsel and chief of staff to Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Richard Lidinsky, departed June 1 to become deputy chief of staff at the Council on Environmental Quality at the White House. No replacement has been named.