Andrew Galdes

Practice Areas

Andrew Galdes advises clients on compliance and enforcement issues involving US laws and regulations related to economic and trade sanctions, as well as export controls.

Mr. Galdes helps clients, including companies, financial institutions, private equity firms, and global private foundations, navigate internal compliance investigations, regulatory, congressional and other government investigations, and enforcement actions, day-to-day corporate compliance matters, and transactional due diligence.

He advises clients on the complex legal, policy, and enforcement issues arising under economic and trade sanctions programs administered by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the State Department’s International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and the Commerce Department’s Export Administration Regulations (EAR).

Mr. Galdes draws on extensive technical knowledge and experience to help clients secure governmental guidance and approvals, including OFAC authorizations and interpretive rulings, and crafts pragmatic solutions to obstacles that international trade laws often present in cross-border transactions. He excels at helping US and global clients design and implement sanctions and export controls compliance programs.

He regularly writes and speaks on topics related to sanctions and export controls.