WASHINGTON, May 7, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Kelley Drye & Warren LLP is pleased to
announce that former Deputy United States Trade Representative
Jayme White will join the firm as a
senior international trade advisor, effective May 13th, working in the firm's
nationally recognized International Trade practice group.
Ambassador White spent more than two years as Deputy U.S. Trade
Representative, where he helped lead the Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative's engagement with key trading partners in the
Western Hemisphere, Europe and the
Middle East. He was responsible
for leading USTR's activities on significant labor and
environmental issues and broadly represented the United States in many different trade
fora, domestically and overseas.
In announcing his departure from the agency, U.S. Trade
Representative Katherine Tai said,
"Ambassador Jayme White played an
integral role in leading USTR's work with our partners around the
world, including the enforcement of the USMCA, as well as the
global arrangement on sustainable steel and aluminum and the
critical minerals agreement negotiations."
Prior to serving as Deputy United States Trade Representative,
Jayme spent two decades as an influential senior staff member in
Congress, working on a wide range of issues in the office of
Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA),
a prominent member of the House Ways & Means Committee. Jayme's
tenure with Congressman McDermott started his involvement in major
trade issues including legislation related to trade, tax,
environment and energy, which extended throughout his time working
on Capitol Hill.
After nine years with Congressman McDermott, Jayme moved to the
U.S. Senate, where he served for 12 years, most notably as the
Chief Advisor for International Competitiveness and Innovation for
the Senate Committee on Finance, under the leadership of Chairman
Ron Wyden of Oregon. During his Senate tenure, Jayme led
efforts to level the playing field for American innovators and
workers, by shaping policies related to technology, intellectual
property, tax, energy, environment and trade, including through
trade negotiations and agreements. These efforts entailed crafting
and advancing legislation to amend the U.S. trade laws to better
respond to unfair foreign trade practices. In his role on the
Finance Committee, he represented and advanced bipartisan U.S.
views to foreign trade leaders, and the outcomes of those efforts
are evident in many trade agreements, including key provisions
relating to enforceable measures on labor, energy, and the
environment in the United
States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
"Jayme played a role in nearly every major trade issue and trade
legislation of the past 20 years, and our clients will benefit
tremendously from his decades of experience advising and shaping
U.S. policy on international trade, intellectual property, the
digital economy, labor, energy and environmental issues," said
John Herrmann, chair of the firm's
International Trade practice.
Kelley Drye's leading
International Trade practice operates at the intersection of trade
law and public policy to advocate for clients where trade policy is
debated and established—in the halls of Congress and before
Executive Branch agencies. The bipartisan team collaborates to
provide legal and policy advice to clients and to ensure that
government officials hear the positions of the companies,
industries and organizations it represents.
"I am thrilled to join this world-class international trade and
global commerce team, and I'm excited for the opportunity to help
the firm's clients continue to be competitive in a fast-changing
global market," said Ambassador White. "Kelley Drye is well known for its work on behalf
of the companies, innovators, and workers who drive the American
economy. The firm also has a long record of success in pushing for
key reforms to US trade and economic policies to better respond to
unfair foreign trade and economic practices designed to sideline
American producers. Joining this advocacy-focused practice will
amplify in the private sector what I sought to achieve in public
service."
Kelley Drye's international trade
practice includes attorneys with more than four decades of work on
federal trade policy, including several former Senate and House
staff members; a former White House Senior Director for
International Trade, Energy, and Environment; a former
international trade counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on Ways and Means; a former policy advisor to the U.S.
Senate Finance Committee, and leading international trade
practitioners who assist clients on matters vital to their
international business. In February of this year, former
Assistant United States Trade Representative for Labor Affairs,
Joshua Kagan, joined the firm.
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