Nathaniel Blaine Bolin

Nate Bolin is a Partner in the Washington, DC office of K&L Gates LLP. For more than 20 years, Mr. Bolin has advised and represented US and global clients on export controls, economic sanctions, trade remedies, customs and tariffs, and related areas of national security and international trade laws. Mr. Bolin has extensive experience with the trade and national security laws and policies governing advanced and emerging technologies in the aerospace, advanced materials, chemicals, defense, medical, oil and gas, semiconductor, telecommunications, and transportation industries. He also regularly helps clients successfully navigate the complex Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) process and national security issues involving investments and cross-border transactions.

Due to his extensive experience with the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Mr. Bolin has been appointed by the Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs to serve on the US State Department’s Defense Trade Advisory Group for four consecutive terms, most recently for the 2022-2024 session. He also advises companies on compliance with export control laws governing commercial, dual-use and nuclear technologies and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions.

In the area of customs and trade regulation, Mr. Bolin has successfully litigated and resolved more than 100 cases and appellate proceedings involving United States antidumping and countervailing duty laws, Section 232 and 301 tariffs, and customs law matters before US Customs and Border Protection, the US Department of Commerce, US International Trade Commission, Court of International Trade, and Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Before entering private practice, Mr. Bolin was an international trade specialist at the International Trade Administration of the US Commerce Department, where he worked on trade negotiations and trade agreements enforcement and compliance. During law school, he served as a law clerk to the US State Department’s Office of the Legal Advisor in the area of international claims and investment disputes.

A graduate of the George Washington University Law School, he has worked and studied in Japan and is fluent in Japanese.