Microsoft Taps Trump Trade Official as Cloud Services Lawyer

Microsoft Corp. has hired C.J. Mahoney, a former Williams & Connolly partner and high ranking lawyer at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, as deputy general counsel for U.S. international trade and the company’s cloud computing service Azure.

Mahoney joined the tech giant’s Innovation & Policy Center in Washington last month after nearly three years as the deputy U.S. trade representative under former President Donald Trump. With Microsoft, Mahoney will oversee a team of lawyers focused on sanctions and export control compliance, international trade policy, and government regulations relating to Azure, according to a company statement.

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