One connected risk landscape.

Controls on what you can sell, ship, and share are expanding into new technologies and new markets. Classification mistakes, licensing failures, and unauthorized technology transfers can disrupt business, delay transactions, and expose companies to significant civil and criminal liability.

Navigating commodity jurisdiction and classification, licensing strategy, technology-transfer and deemed-export issues, voluntary self-disclosures, internal investigations, and enforcement defense. We help clients build export-control programs that withstand regulatory scrutiny — and respond effectively when issues arise.

Sanctions programs change rapidly, reach further than many companies expect, and can transform ordinary commercial transactions into regulatory exposure overnight. Screening is essential — but it is only one component of an effective sanctions compliance program.

Assessing sanctions risk, analyzing counterparties and beneficial ownership, structuring licensing strategies, preparing voluntary disclosures, and responding when payments, business partners, or transactions raise regulatory concerns. Practical guidance grounded in how sanctions are enforced — not simply how they are written.

Under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, goods may be detained at the border under a rebuttable presumption that places the burden squarely on the importer. Supply-chain transparency has become a legal, operational, and reputational imperative.

Mapping and tracing supply chains, responding to CBP detentions, preparing admissibility submissions, engaging with regulators, and designing compliance programs built to withstand enforcement. Our perspective is informed by firsthand involvement in shaping the legislation itself — insight into both its policy objectives and its practical enforcement.

Foreign investment, strategic partnerships, and cross-border acquisitions increasingly trigger national security review. The analysis now extends well beyond defense into data, advanced technology, critical infrastructure, and resilient supply chains.

Structuring transactions, assessing national security risk, preparing mandatory and voluntary filings, and engaging with CFIUS throughout the review process. We help clients identify potential concerns early, preserving flexibility before strategic decisions become regulatory challenges.

Anti-corruption enforcement is global, and the expectations placed on compliance programs are set by what regulators have seen work — and fail — at the largest companies in the world.

Designing and assessing compliance programs, conducting third-party and transactional due diligence, leading internal investigations, and implementing remediation. Counsel informed by more than four years helping lead and strengthen a DOJ monitorship-grade global compliance program spanning more than 180 markets.

AI, advanced computing, dual-use technologies, and other emerging innovations are increasingly shaped by export controls, investment screening, cybersecurity expectations, and national security policy. Technology strategy has become inseparable from regulatory and geopolitical risk.

Developing governance frameworks, assessing regulatory risk, advising on policy developments, and providing strategic counsel for companies whose technologies sit at the intersection of innovation, national security, and global competition.