Biden naming Nimish Patel to trade advisory body

President Joe Biden intends to appoint Indian American attorney Nimish Patel as a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations established to provide overall policy advice to the United States Trade Representative.

The Committee includes up to 45 members with “expertise in general trade, investment, and development issues, including representatives of non-federal governments, labor, industry, agriculture, small business, service industries, retailers, nongovernmental environmental and conservation organizations, and consumer interests,” the White House said announcing his appointment with eight others Friday.

Patel is the Chair of the Corporate and Securities Department at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, LLP, a law firm based in Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, DC.

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His experience includes mergers and acquisitions for private and public companies, angel and venture capital financing, IPOs, and other financing and corporate restructurings.

Patel currently advises private businesses and publicly traded exchange-listed companies on governance and regulatory filing requirements. His clients are from across a broad range of industries and sectors including artificial intelligence, life sciences, technology, e-commerce, new media, and entertainment.

Previously, Patel was a CPA and a senior auditor in the Orange County, California office of Deloitte working on private and public company audits and other attestations services.

His clients ranged from private closely held businesses to Fortune 500 publicly traded corporations and was involved in many complex transactions including restructurings and cross-border transactions.

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Patel was elected and previously served on the School Board of Education for the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. During his tenure, Patel was involved in making education policy decisions affecting the 11,000 school district students, overseeing a $100 million operating budget and a $300 million capital expenditure budget.

He is the Past President and Trustee of the American India Foundation in Los Angeles and the Past President and member of the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California.

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Patel received his JD/MBA degrees from the University of San Diego and his undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California.