Ray Gold

Ray Gold focuses on U.S. export control and sanctions laws and regulations, including the Commerce Department's Export Administration Regulations ("EAR"), the State Department's International Traffic in Arms Regulations ("ITAR"), regulations administered by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC"), and the nuclear export controls administered by the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Ray is also an expert on Commerce Department antiboycott controls and Treasury Department antiboycott controls.

Ray has advised clients in a variety of industries, such as the software, computer, semiconductor, financial, aerospace, defense, telecommunications, video game, test equipment, agricultural irrigation, medical equipment, and nuclear industries.

Associate, Counsel, Partner, Berliner Corcoran & Rowe LLP, 1999-2004, 2005-present

Counsel, Export Controls and Government Contracts, Thales North America, Inc., 2004-2005

Staff Attorney, Associate, Soble International Law, LLC, 1997-1999

Trade Specialist, Dewey Ballantine, LLP, 1994-1997

Staff Attorney, Center for Auto Safety, 1993-1994

Representative Experience

• Provide U.S. and non-U.S. companies with compliance advice and risk assessments of proposed exports, reexports, and in-country transfers, and other proposed transactions.

• Prepare applications for Commerce licenses, including export licenses, reexport licenses (including in-country transfers), Encryption License Arrangements, deemed export licenses, and deemed reexport licenses.

• Advise companies on the export control classifications of their products. Prepare requests for formal Commerce classifications of products.

• Advise companies on export controls and sanctions governing encryption, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.

• Prepare General Correspondence requests to State seeking authorization of proposed reexports, proposed retransfers, and proposed U.S. person services abroad.

• Prepare requests to State for commodity jurisdiction determinations.

• Prepare applications for Treasury specific licenses.

• Prepare export compliance programs and technology control plans. Prepare export compliance contract clauses.

• Prepare voluntary self-disclosures to Commerce, State, Treasury, and Energy. Prepare Prohibition 10 requests to Commerce. Advise companies on corrective procedures.