Mnuchin Private Equity Firm Loads Up on Former Treasury Lawyers

Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s newly formed private equity firm Liberty Strategic Capital has brought on at least three former Big Law partners who worked in the Trump administration.

Brian Callanan, a former partner at Washington-based Cooper & Kirk and a one-time associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and King & Spalding, has joined Liberty as its general counsel and senior managing director after nearly four years at Treasury.

Joseph Clark, a former senior adviser at Treasury and counselor to Callanan in his role as general counsel, has also joined Liberty as an assistant general counsel. David Friedman, a ...