Critical to maintaining — and attaining — global competitiveness is the ability to successfully navigate sophisticated national and international regulations governing trade policies and potential remedies, export controls and customs laws, foreign direct investment and, in certain instances, matters of national security. O'Melveny's International Trade practice is built to help clients exploit cross-border opportunities while minimizing compliance-related risk. Unique to O'Melveny is the degree to which we are able to offer clients a combination of multi-jurisdictional coverage and unparalleled expertise in this specialized area of law. Our team of lawyers in Washington, D.C., New York, California, Asia, and London has successfully represented clients in trade-related matters in virtually every state of commercial significance around the globe. Years of experience in private practice and public service back our counsel to clients; our team features lawyers whose experience includes high-level positions in the U.S. Departments of Commerce, State, and Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, various U.S. Attorney's offices, and the U.S. International Trade Commission, among other organizations.
O'Melveny's International Trade practice helps clients anticipate and address the myriad regulations governing companies seeking to compete in an expanding, and often complex, global business environment. Our strong track record of counseling some of the best companies in the world in their most challenging, high-stakes cross-border undertakings is testament to that ability. We counsel both US and non-US clients on the application of US export controls, economic sanctions, antiboycott, and customs laws to their international activities, and assist clients in developing and auditing compliance programs relating to these laws. We are widely recognized as a leader in providing regulatory and strategic counsel on foreign investment transactions that implicate national security matters, derived both as counsel to parties to transactions considered by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), and as senior government officials participating in CFIUS deliberations. On the trade remedies side, we have substantial experience in defending and prosecuting trade remedy proceedings around the world, including anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations and administrative reviews, safeguard proceedings, and other trade actions.