Export Controls and Economic Sanctions: What Every White Collar Criminal Law Practitioner Needs to Know in 2015

Chase Kaniecki is an international trade associate in Kirkland’s Washington, D.C. office. He has substantial experience in all areas of international trade law, including export controls, customs, trade remedies and trade agreements.

Chase has represented a wide spectrum of multinational companies based both in and outside the United States in every context in which an international trade law issue arises. He has also advised clients regarding compliance with the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), the embargoes and sanctions programs administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and sanctions-related legislation.

Chase has represented U.S. importers before U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the U.S. Court of International Trade. He also represents foreign manufacturers and exporters and U.S. importers in non-market economy antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings.

With an international reputation as an effective advocate in export controls, trade sanctions, anti-corruption, related compliance, and white collar defense, Trip Mackintosh defends domestic and foreign corporations and personnel facing investigation under U.S. export controls and other trade sanctions.  These trade sanctions laws include the Arms Export Control Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as well as their implementing regulations. Mackintosh and his team have served as lead counsel for multiple complex ITAR criminal and civil enforcement actions, including two of the three Department of State AECA and ITAR consent agreements issued in calendar year 2010.  One of these, Xe Services, was reported to be one of the most complex in the history of ITAR administrative enforcement.  For the last four years, Mr. Mackintosh is the only Chambers & Partners nationally ranked attorney for trade sanctions outside of Washington, D.C.

Erica Dillon is a Manager, Customs & Global Trade at Deloitte Tax LLP, where she is a member of Deloitte’s U.S. Export Controls practice. Erica is a subject matter specialist in U.S.  export controls, including the ITAR, EAR and OFAC regulations. She primarily focuses on advising a wide range of industries, such as aerospace, defense and high technology, on U.S. export controls and compliance, including jurisdictional classifications, technology transfers, strategic licensing, conducting export compliance assessments, compliance audits, and investigations, designing and implementing export compliance programs, providing guidance and solutions for proactive and remedial measures for compliance, and creating and conducting customized export compliance training. She began her career in export compliance in 2006 as the empowered official of a multinational manufacturer where she was  responsible for overall export compliance, including internal and external export audits for the business unit.  Erica went on to join Clifford Chance U.S. LLP, during which time she focused on trade compliance and international trade, to include serving  on  the team selected  by  the Department  of State to monitor  a company’s  compliance under their Consent Agreement. She received her J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law in 2009.