Factbox-Who will Trump pick as regulators? Here are the contenders By Reuters

(Reuters) -Donald Trump has begun the strategy of selecting a cabinet and deciding on utterly different high-ranking administration officers following his U.S. presidential election victory.

Right here are one of the most contenders for lots of posts overseeing law and enforcement.

Commerce Division

LINDA MCMAHON

McMahon is considered as a high contender for Commerce secretary. She served as head of the Itsy-bitsy Commerce Administration within the first Trump administration and is chair of the knowledgeable-Trump The US First Motion (WA:) wide political action committee. She serves on the board of social media platform Reality Social, and is a serious Trump donor.

ROBERT LIGHTHIZER

A loyalist who served as Trump’s U.S. commerce consultant for certainly the president-elect’s complete first term, Lighthizer will nearly certainly be invited help. He is belief to be a contender for the head jobs at Treasury, the Commerce Division and the U.S. Commerce Representative’s station of enterprise. Lighthizer is a firm believer in tariffs and became one of many main figures in Trump’s commerce war with China.

VIVEK RAMASWAMY

A Republican presidential candidate till he dropped out of the bustle in January, Ramaswamy is a attainable decision for the head job at Commerce. The successfully to set person former biotech executive won fame in gorgeous-wing circles thanks to his 2021 bestseller “Woke, Inc.,” which decries selections by some sizable companies to sinister enterprise technique spherical social-justice and local weather-commerce concerns.

NAZAK NIKAKHTAR

Nikakhtar became formerly an assistant secretary and acted as below secretary for the Bureau of Commerce and Security all around the first Trump administration. She is being belief to be for a senior post at the Commerce Division, which oversees export controls which had been old skool by Washington within the U.S.-China tech war. She is a attorney and at this time chairs the nationwide security be aware at Wiley Rein.

Antitrust

GAIL SLATER

A policy consultant to Vice President-elect JD (NASDAQ:) Vance, Slater is viewed by antitrust attorneys as a high candidate to handbook the Federal Commerce Commission. Slater previously instructed Trump on files privateness and telecommunications, and held roles at Fox Corp (NASDAQ:) and Roku (NASDAQ:). Earlier than that, Slater became at the FTC for 10 years, including as an consultant to then-Commissioner Julie Brill (AS:), who’s now an executive at Microsoft (NASDAQ:).

MELISSA HOLYOAK

One in all the FTC’s two fresh commissioners, Holyoak is a possible pick for performing chair. She became Utah’s solicitor total, and previously led the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, a conservative non-earnings legislation firm considering free speech and minute authorities.

ANDREW FERGUSON

Different Republican on the FTC, Ferguson is one other possible candidate for prime antitrust roles. He became previously chief counsel to Republican Senator Mitch McConnell and clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Every Ferguson and Holyoak voted in opposition to one of the most agency’s initiatives below chair Lina Khan, including a rule that would kind it simpler to abolish subscriptions and ban non-compete agreements.

ANDREW FINCH

Finch, a former deputy within the Division of Justice’s antitrust division below Trump who expressed skepticism against “drastic calls for breaking up companies or turning tech platforms into regulated utilities,” is on the full a contender to handbook the division. Finch is a accomplice at Paul Weiss the set apart apart he has represented Spirit Airways (NYSE:), Uber Technologies (NYSE:) and Mastercard (NYSE:) in merger opinions.

BARRY NIGRO

A former antitrust legit at the DOJ and FTC and accomplice at Fried Frank, Nigro is one other possible candidate. Nigro handled the DOJ’s evaluate of T-Mobile US (NASDAQ:) Inc’s $26-billion takeover of Hasten Corp in 2020 and pharmacy-chain CVS Health Corp (NYSE:)’s $69-billion acquisition of successfully being insurer Aetna Inc (NYSE:).

Cybersecurity

JOSHUA STEINMAN

A protégé of former Trump Nationwide Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn, Steinman played a key just within the first Trump administration’s aggressive stance on authorities hacking operations and is a contender for a senior cybersecurity space.

Federal Communications Commission

BRENDAN CARR

One in all two Republican participants of the Federal Communications Commission, Carr is a seemingly pick for performing chair of the FCC (BME:) – and a attainable everlasting chair. He has been a supporter of Elon Musk’s efforts to build up subsidies for broadband web carrier and criticized NBC for letting Vice President Kamala Harris seem on “Saturday Night Live” right before the election.