International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions

O’Melveny’s International Trade and Investment Regulation practice helps clients maximize cross-border opportunities while minimizing compliance-related risk. Years in private practice and public service back our counsel to clients; our team features lawyers whose experience includes high-level positions in the White House, US Departments of Commerce, State, and Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, various US Attorney’s offices, and the US International Trade Commission, among other organizations.

• Export Controls and Economic Sanctions. Our team helps clients tackle proactive compliance issues as well as enforcement matters involving international trade controls.

• Regulation of Foreign Investments. Drawing on decades of experience in private practice and senior government positions, we regularly serve as counsel to US and non-US parties in transactions considered by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the Defense Security Service, and other federal and state authorities.

• International Trade Policy. We provide strategic counsel to clients who wish to understand more deeply or to advocate for change in international trade and investment policies or rules that are critical to their businesses.

• Trade Remedies. We have broad experience handling a variety of trade administrative and enforcement matters, including antidumping and countervailing duty investigations, safeguard, national security, and “Section 301” cases.