Michael Zolandz

Mike Zolandz is the chair of Dentons' Federal Regulatory and Compliance practice, and serves as the Managing Partner for Dentons’ Washington, DC office. He guides clients through their most critical and complex trade compliance and foreign investment projects, specializing in cross-border transactions and regulations related to international commerce. He frequently represents clients before the United States Department of the

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the United States Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), and the United States Department of State.

Mike offers clients practical expertise and guidance, advising on US export controls, US trade sanctions programs, compliance risk assessments, anticorruption program development, and notification procedures before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Mike has also supported clients responding to enforcement matters under US sanctions and export control laws, and in seeking modification of their status under US sanctions programs, including successful designation removal matters for both entities and individuals.

Mike has led internal investigations and regulatory disclosures under US export control and sanctions programs, and managed complex compliance enhancements and program development for US and multinational companies across a wide array of industry sectors.