Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld is growing its bench of former top GOP Senate aides with deep knowledge of the tax cut legislation passed by Congress last year.

The firm recruited Brendan Dunn, who served as policy adviser and counsel to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to join its public law and policy practice ranks as a partner. Dunn was the Senate GOP leadership’s point person on the tax reform negotiations with the House of Representatives, other factions in the Senate, the White House and the Treasury Department.