14 Apr 2026
Hogan Lovells hires Elizabeth Cannon as partner in Washington, D.C. International Trade & Investment practice
"Hogan Lovells hires Elizabeth Cannon as partner in its International Trade & Investment practice in Washington, D.C.; she will work on national security, trade controls, ICTS and export controls."
Cannon is a national security lawyer with nearly 20 years of experience across government, industry and private practice. She joins Hogan Lovells from the Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services (OICTS) within the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security, where she served as the inaugural executive director reporting to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security. At OICTS she assembled and managed an 85‑person multidisciplinary team responsible for administering a national security program governing the import, use and procurement of information and communications technologies and services (ICTS) from certain foreign adversary countries, and she led development and implementation of regulations governing the import and sale of connected vehicles and related components under the ICTS rules.
Previously, Cannon was a leader in the National Security Division at the Department of Justice, spending over a decade in NSD’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, including five years as Deputy Chief for Export Control and Sanctions. As a federal prosecutor in NSD she handled major investigations, prosecutions, settlements and monitorships involving export control and sanctions violations.
In the private sector, Cannon served as Senior Counsel for Global Trade at Microsoft, advising senior leadership on national security laws and regulations — including export controls, sanctions, outbound investment, ICTS and bulk data transfers — and managing internal investigations, trade‑related due diligence, semiconductor‑related export control implementation and the company’s trade risk portfolio.