Lobbying World

• The Corn Refiners Association hired Allison Cooke to serve as its director of food policy. She comes from the public affairs and consulting firm Kellen, where she worked with organizations including the Calorie Control Council, the International Food Additives Council and the Infant Nutrition Council of America. At the refiners, she will be helping to develop its international, federal and state advocacy efforts.

• Crowell & Moring hired Alexis Gilman to be a partner in the firm’s antitrust group. He’s fresh off seven years at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), where he most recently served as the assistant director of the Bureau of Competition, the area of the FTC that handles mergers and deals with antitrust law. He worked on many high-profile mergers and acquisitions, including Sysco and U.S. Foods, DraftKings and FanDuel, and the merger of Albertsons and Safeway.

{mosads}• Doug Emhoff, husband of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), has left Venable, where he helped build out the law firm’s presence on the West Coast, for DLA Piper. He will serve as a partner in its intellectual property and technology practice as well as its media, sport, and entertainment sector. He will work out of DLA Piper’s Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., offices.

• Mike McDonald has left the Treasury Department to rejoin Ernst & Young to work in its national tax and international tax services departments. McDonald most recently served in the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Analysis. He also represented the United States at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Committee on Fiscal Affairs and was a member on a United Nations subcommittee that dealt with international transfer pricing issues.

• Casey Clark is leaving the public affairs firm FTI Consulting, where he had been for a decade. Clark has landed at the American Gaming Association and will work as the trade group’s vice president of strategic communications. 

• Law firm Bracewell hired away Anna Burhop from the American Chemistry Council (ACC) to serve as a principal in its Washington office. Prior to that, she served as the director of regulatory and technical affairs at ACC and as a professional Republican staff member on the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee.