Elizabeth Rosenberg left her role as a senior sanctions official at the Treasury Department to join Bank of America as managing director, global financial crimes public policy, she announced on LinkedIn this week. Rosenberg was most recently Treasury’s assistant secretary for terrorist financing and financial crimes, where she helped oversee the Biden administration’s sanctions activities against Russia, including by coordinating them with U.S. allies (see 2310040059, 2304270069, 2303030018 and 2212080040).

Export Controls Australia Group, a new nonprofit for export controls professionals, aims to connect industry, government and others to “collaboratively navigate the complex landscape of export controls,” the group said on its website. Chief Operations Officer Amy McDonnell said the group is the “first Australian national industrial advocacy body focused exclusively on export controls and sanctions for Australian” defense, dual use and research organizations. It will “fill what we saw as a gap in the market for export control advocacy and professionalisation,” she said in a post last week on LinkedIn.

Alexis Early, former partner at King & Spalding, has joined Jenner & Block as a partner in the Washington-based national security and crisis practice. Early's practice focuses on sanctions, trade and export controls, anti-money laundering, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and more, the firm said.

Anden Chow, former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, has joined litigation boutique MoloLamken as a partner in New York, the firm announced. Chow worked as an assistant U.S. Attorney for a decade, most recently working on prosecutions into "international financial crime," including "sanctions evasion, asset forfeiture, money laundering, cryptocurrency-related fraud, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations," the firm said.

Former Bureau of Industry and Security chief counsel Opher Shweiki, who left the agency earlier this month (see 2402140065), joined Akin Gump as a partner in its Washington office, the firm announced Feb. 20. Akin said Shweiki will add “further depth” to its export controls, sanctions, national security and global investigations team.

Bureau of Industry and Security chief counsel Opher Shweiki left the federal government after over 25 years at DOJ and BIS, he said in a post on LinkedIn Feb. 14. He said he will start his “next adventure” next week. BIS didn’t immediately comment.

Bridget McGovern, former assistant secretary for trade and economic security at DHS, joined Squire Patton as a partner in the public policy practice, the firm announced. McGovern will focus on national security and trade issues, including reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. She worked for over two years at DHS, where she served as an agency representative to CFIUS and helped implement the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List.

Jennifer Solari, a former senior official with DOJ who prosecuted export violations, has joined BakerHostetler, the law firm announced this week. Her practice will focus on export controls, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other white collar issues.

Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics who tracked the ways the U.S.-China phase one trade agreement fell short, has joined the State Department as chief economist.

As Josh Kagan leaves as assistant U.S. trade representative for labor, USTR Katherine Tai announced that Katy Mastman will replace him in an acting capacity. Tai said, "Josh’s leadership has been instrumental in our successful use of the USMCA Rapid Response Labor Mechanism and work to eradicate forced labor in supply chains."