Akin Gump Named Top Export Controls Firm in Two Categories at WorldECR Awards

(Washington, D.C.) – Akin Gump has been named the winner in two categories of the WorldECR Awards 2021: Export Controls – USA and Export Controls/Sanctions – Rest of the World.

In the United States, the firm is noted for its impressive innovation in client services, including the development of the Military End Use/Military End User (MEU) Tool, together with Palantir Technologies Inc.—a compliance platform built to support Akin Gump’s clients in MEU review and designation to comply with U.S. government trade restrictions. Further details may be found here. The MEU tool is also shortlisted for Legal Services Innovation for the 2021 The American Lawyer Industry Awards.

Akin Gump international trade partners Kevin Wolf, Nnedi Ifudu Nweke and Tom McCarthy, international trade practice head, are all spotlighted as part of this recognition. The publication previously named Mr. Wolf Export Controls Practitioner of the Year (learn more here).

Throughout the rest of the world, the team is noted as having continued to enhance the firm’s “reputation…especially in Asia and the Middle East.” This is the firm’s second win in this category. The publication also noted the roles of Dubai partner in charge Mahmoud Baki Fadlallah—who served as “the brains behind the firm’s [tool] Overruled,” another innovative compliance tool the firm launched in the past year—and Hong Kong partner Tatman Savio.

Launched in 2015, the WorldECR Awards recognize “outstanding work, vision, best practice, commercial benefit to the company, and contribution to international security, of organizations and individuals working in the fields of export control and sanctions compliance and non-proliferation.

To learn more about these awards, click here.

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is a leading international law firm with more than 900 lawyers in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

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