Sullivan & Cromwell partner Michael DeSombre in Hong Kong, the Trump administration’s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Thailand, reported earning more than $4 million from the firm and vowed to resign from various political groups if he is confirmed, according to new disclosures that were filed as part of his confirmation proceeding.

DeSombre’s newly filed financial disclosure and ethics agreement, mandatory submissions for many executive branch nominees, reveal a peek at the Am Law 100 firm’s partner compensation scheme. DeSombre, who joined Sullivan & Cromwell in 1995, estimated the value of his capital account at between $500,000 and $1 million, and he said he would receive a pro rata partnership share for legal services performed in 2018 and 2019.

President Donald Trump nominated DeSombre in July. No hearing date has been set before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Sullivan & Cromwell’s reported $4.5 million compensation by all partners ranked 4th on this year’s Am Law 100 list. The firm’s 164 equity partners are the only partners. DeSombre’s reported compensation would include earnings from last year up until his ethics papers were filed.

Very few lawyers have left Sullivan & Cromwell for posts in the Trump administration. W. Jay Clayton is chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and Brent McIntosh, the U.S. Treasury Department’s general counsel, was recently nominated to serve as the agency’s undersecretary for international affairs. Jeffrey Wall is the second-in-charge at the U.S. Justice Department’s office of the solicitor general.

DeSombre’s documents further reveal the extent of his legal work at Sullivan & Cromwell, where he made partner in 2004 and focused on mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. He said he provided legal services to, among other clients of the firm: Anheuser Busch Inbev, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange, Seoul-based SK Global Chemical Co. and Hybio Pharmaceuticals Co., based in Shenzhen, China.

“I will recuse myself from participation on a case-by-case basis in any particular matter involving specific parties in which I determine that a reasonable person with knowledge of the relevant facts would question my impartiality in that matter, unless I am first authorized to participate” pursuant to a waiver, DeSombre said in his ethics agreement.

DeSombre said he would resign from positions with Republicans Abroad Hong Kong, Save The Children Hong Kong Ltd., Republicans Overseas Action Inc. and Republicans Overseas Foundation. DeSombre is a Harvard Law School graduate who earlier obtained a Master of Arts in East Asian Studies from Stanford University. He is fluent in Mandarin and speaks some Korean.

Federal campaign records show DeSombre contributed to Jeb Bush’s unsuccessful 2016 presidential bid and earlier donated to Mitt Romney’s presidential run in 2012. DeSombre’s tweets in late 2016 embraced then-candidate Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again.”

DeSombre is among the Big Law partners who snagged a Trump administration nomination for an ambassador post. Among them, former O’Melveny & Myers chairman Arthur Culvahouse Jr. was confirmed in January to be U.S. ambassador to Australia, and Christopher Landau, a Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan appellate partner, was confirmed Thursday to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Mexico.

DeSombre would succeed Glyn Davies as ambassador to Thailand. Davies, a career diplomat, served in the role from 2015 to 2018.

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