Akin Gump has announced that former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration Kevin J. Wolf has joined the firm as a partner in its international trade practice. Wolf was the primary strategist, negotiator and implementer of President Obama’s Export Control Reform Initiative, which was a seven-year, interagency effort to substantially rewrite the defense trade and most dual-use export controls to accomplish various national security and foreign policy objectives. For more from Akin Gump, see “Deal Struck to Keep Transatlantic Data Flowing” (Feb. 24, 2016).