Ryan Majerus

• Advised manufacturing, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, technology, energy, consumer, and private equity clients on the U.S. Administration’s trade and tariff policies.
• Advised clients on government procurement, construction, contractual, and M&A issues related to international trade, national security, and supply chain resiliency.
• Advised domestic manufacturing clients on trade remedy investigations assessments and enforcement.

Ryan Majerus covers trade remedies, tariffs, trade policy and negotiations, national security, trade agreement enforcement, import compliance, supply chains, and government procurement.  Ryan is a trusted advisor to company executives across a range of industries, including private equity, pharmaceutical, medtech, semiconductor, AI, energy, aerospace, apparel, steel and aluminum, chemical, automotive, agriculture, distribution, and domestic manufacturing companies of all kinds.

Ryan recently performed the functions of the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance at the U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration for over a year, serving as the decisionmaker for every AD/CVD duty imposed by the U.S.  He also was the Senior Policy Advisor for Supply Chains at the White House National Economic Council under President Joe Biden, where he played a central role in U.S. industrial strategy.  Ryan has been regularly quoted and consulted by major media outlets, including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Politico Reuters, Bloomberg, the Washington Post, Barron’s, the Associated Press, AFP, the Detroit Free Press, Pitchbook, The Capitol Forum, Agripulse, and Law360.  He has also made TV and radio appearances on the BBC, Bloomberg Radio, and other outlets. 

Prior to his 4 years in political roles at Commerce and the White House, Ryan had a decade-long legal career in the federal government, serving as the Senior Counsel for Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”); as Assistant General Counsel at the Office of the USTR under the first Trump Administration, where he litigated several disputes before the WTO involving U.S. trade remedies and government subsidies and was a lead on agriculture trade policy. He also was a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the DOJ, where he represented Commerce as lead counsel in dozens of trade remedies cases before the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and defended numerous agencies in government contracts and bid protest litigation before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and Federal Circuit.

Admitted in New York and Washington DC