Eric McClafferty
Partner
Understanding and complying with the legal requirements involved in moving goods, services, and funds across international borders is critical in our increasingly interconnected world. Our team has decades of experience advising companies on how to comply with these rules, conducting internal investigations of potential violations, and resolving criminal and regulatory agency enforcement actions.
We counsel clients on the full range of laws governing the export and reexport of goods, technology, software, and services, and help companies navigate rapidly evolving U.S. and EU economic sanctions, including those imposed on Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Crimea, and Venezuela. We provide compliance solutions tailored to the needs of our clients, from designing compliance programs and conducting training to advising on day-to-day issues, such as export control classification analyses, obtaining licenses and opinions from regulators, and conducting time-sensitive assessments of pending transactions. We work hard to help clients and their compliance teams achieve critical compliance goals in an efficient way using practical, understandable tools that integrate seamlessly with existing business processes. We also conduct export and sanctions compliance due diligence as part of the mergers and acquisitions process, and help clients evaluate and minimize successor liability risk.
We’ve been trusted to manage hundreds of audits and internal investigations and have brought many voluntary self-disclosures (VSDs) and formal export enforcement investigations to favorable conclusions for our clients, often without financial penalties. Our in-house data analytics team provides efficient and effective review of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system data for clients conducting export control risk assessments, audits, or internal investigations. From a single facility to global operations, our scalable solutions allow clients to identify targeted export control and sanctions risks amid millions of transactions. We are particularly experienced in analyzing large volumes of transactional, operational, and financial data in a highly systematic way to determine whether potential violations exist and to design specific and effective remedial measures to prevent future problems. This empirical approach to audits, investigations and compliance helps companies determine their true risk exposure and whether a VSD makes sense when violations are identified. We also have decades of experience helping companies negotiate with enforcement agencies in a smart, strategic way that takes account of short- and long-term consequences for the company and individuals.
We work with companies of all sizes in all types of industries, including aerospace (with a focus on aircraft components and unmanned vehicles), financial services and banking, military and defense, software and cloud (including encryption classification and licensing), electronics and computers, vehicles and vessels of many types, optics and lasers, publishing, manufacturing (with a particular focus on materials and on oilfield and fluid handling equipment), agricultural products, telecommunications, garments and fashion, entertainment and sports, industry associations, and a wide variety of other sectors.
Our attorneys have a well-earned reputation for integrity and credibility with all of the principal U.S. sanctions and export control agencies:
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