Overview

Compliance issues and enforcement actions arise in many contexts for businesses and academic institutions that export or import equipment, software or technology, seek foreign investment, supply goods or services to the U.S. government, or employ foreign nationals in the United States. The issues are varied and cut across the jurisdictions of several departments and agencies of the U.S. government, including the Departments of Commerce, State, Treasury, and Defense as well as the Department of Justice.

Hinckley Allen’s International Trade & National Security group, has decades of experience in essentially every aspect of practice, policy and trade-related national security issues. Our team is led by Stephanie Siegmann, former National Security Chief in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts (MA USAO). During Stephanie’s almost 20 year tenure, including serving as the MA USAO’s first female National Security Chief, she prosecuted and oversaw the investigation of hundreds of violations of U.S. export laws and sanction regulations. Our talented group of attorneys is poised to assist with the many timely, complex global issues faced by companies and individuals.

What We Do

Our International Trade & National Security team has extensive knowledge and experience in all areas involving the regulation of international trade, oversight of investment and financial transactions, and enforcement of national security-related laws and regulations.

Our team provides practical, strategic, and effective advice to clients from a wide variety of industries in connection with international trade and national security regulatory regimes, including: 

• The Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)
• The Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (ECRA) and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR)
• Economic Sanctions administrated by the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
• The Foreign Trade Regulations (FTR)
• The Anti-Smuggling Statutes – 18 U.S.C. §§ 545 (smuggling goods into the US) and 554 (smuggling goods outside of the US)
• Sections 301-310 of the Trade Act of 1974
• Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 Prohibiting Imports produced by Forced Labor
• Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and Acting as an Agent of a Foreign Government in the US – 18 U.S.C. § 951
• The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
• The False Claims Act (FCA)
• The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)