International Trade Policies Seminar

Ramey’s practice focuses on business and transactional matters for a wide range of clients, with a particular concentration in mergers & acquisitions, private equity transactions, private offerings, and corporate governance. In addition to her corporate work, she also represents clients in an array of business and family immigration matters including naturalization applications, H-1B petitions, employment based green card applications, special immigrant juvenile petitions, and I-9 enforcement actions.

Sean counsels clients on economic sanctions, export controls and other international trade matters, drawing on his years of federal government and private sector experience. He advises clients across industries on the full spectrum of export compliance and enforcement matters under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and economic sanctions programs. He further guides clients through national security reviews conducted by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and counsels companies on customs and tariff developments.

Karl began his legal career with the United States Customs Service, now known as U.S. Customs and Border Protection. His work involved the enforcement of border control laws and compliance with Customs regulations and as Senior Attorney in the Intellectual Property Rights Branch he handled cases dealing with the enforcement of U.S. intellectual property rights at the border, the detention and seizure of infringing imports, exclusion orders against infringing goods issued by the International Trade Commission and issuing decisions concerning the infringement of U.S. intellectual property rights. His work also involved tariff classification and duty assessment, as well as matters involving the substantial transformation, marking, and valuation of imported merchandise.

Russ is a seasoned export control and environmental practitioner who manages internal investigations, voluntary disclosures, transactional diligence and litigation in these substantive areas. In his export control and economic sanctions practice, Russ has provided extensive advice about Russian and Iranian sanctions, voluntary disclosures and investigations in connection with potential export control violations, as well as assistance to clients with export licensing from the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) and the National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA).