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Tax partner Stephen E. Shay is leaving Ropes & Gray to join the US Treasury as deputy assistant secretary for international tax affairs.

Before joining Ropes & Gray in 1987, Shay was international tax counsel for the Treasury.

Meanwhile, Mark Popofsky joins Ropes & Gray in Washington DC as co-head of the antitrust practice group. He was previously chair of the Technology and Competition practice group at Kaye Scholer. Before that, Popofsky was senior counsel to the assistant attorney general in charge of the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, where he played a key role in United States v. Microsoft.

Popofsky is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, and earned his JD at Harvard Law School, where he was executive editor of the Law Review.

Ropes & Gray LLP is a national law firm with offices located in Boston, New York City, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Washington, Chicago, Hong Kong and Tokyo; and a conference center in London. The firm has over 1,000 lawyers worldwide.

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