Eric R McClafferty

Practice Areas

Eric McClafferty is a partner in the International Trade practice, where he guides clients through a range of international trade challenges and helps them devise strategies to succeed in a global economy. Eric’s experience includes trade remedy and trade policy counseling and a variety of government enforcement issues, including those related to economic sanctions, export controls, FCPA, and reviews and investigations before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Eric’s clients include producers of industrial, aerospace, high-technology and agricultural products and technology, such as chemicals, chemical processing equipment, pharmaceuticals, software, electronics, unmanned vehicles and military items, including aircraft and related components, computers, satellite software and components, semiconductors, nuclear power plant components and specialty metals, powders and alloys. He works with all export control agencies of the U.S. government, including the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS); Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC); and counterparts at the Department of Defense (DOD), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Department of Energy (DOE). Eric has managed hundreds of export control internal and external investigations, bringing a large number of voluntary self-disclosures and other export enforcement matters to successful conclusions.