Nabeel Yousef

Nabeel is a partner in the Washington, DC office, where he leads Freshfields' US sanctions and export controls practice. Nabeel focuses on civil and criminal cross-border compliance, internal investigations, and enforcement issues related to economic sanctions, export controls, and trade.

Nabeel engages with government regulators on behalf of his clients across a range of industry sectors. He represents clients on sanctions administered by OFAC; export controls in the EAR and the ITAR; the FCPA; US antiboycott regulations; US customs law and import rules; and other civil and criminal statutes and regulations. Nabeel also advises clients on sanctions, export control, and anticorruption issues in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, credit facilities, and capital markets transactions.

Nabeel helps clients navigate their most significant issues, including those related to Iran, Cuba, Russia, Venezuela, Chinese telecom and technology, and terrorist organizations.

JD, University of Pennsylvania Law School, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Constitutional Law

BS, magna cum laude, Georgetown University