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Kimberly A. Strosnider

Partner

Washington +1 202 662 5816

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    Co-chair of the firm’s International Trade Controls Practice Group, Kim Strosnider has more than 20 years’ experience advising companies on the application of international trade controls, including export controls, economic sanctions, and antiboycott laws and regulations.

    Kim counsels clients across a range of industries on trade controls matters, including resolving complex compliance, enforcement, licensing, and jurisdiction/classification issues. She regularly advocates for clients before the key trade controls agencies, including the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, and Treasury.

    Kim has led numerous internal investigations for clients on trade controls matters and has helped companies design and implement compliance programs. She also frequently advises on trade control issues in mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.

    Among the areas in which Kim counsels clients are compliance with the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Export Administration Regulations (EAR), economic sanctions programs administered by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and antiboycott programs administered by the Commerce and Treasury Departments. She has particular experience in advising on the complex and changing U.S. trade controls applicable to China and Russia.

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    • Led more than a dozen internal investigations on export control matters for a major U.S. aerospace manufacturing company, including designing and helping the company implement corrective actions.
    • Advised a major U.S.-based defense company on compliance with ITAR requirements, including with respect to a series of acquisitions and divestitures.
    • Assisted a U.S.-based manufacturer in investigating export control matters and filing voluntary disclosures; responding to agency questions/requests for information; and revamping its trade controls compliance program, including drafting technology control plans and other export compliance procedures, conducting a risk assessment, and providing training to company personnel.
    • Assisting a company in the semiconductor sector with an export enforcement action and the application of complex China-related export controls to its business.
    • Conducted global sanctions and export controls compliance risk assessments for a major non-U.S. natural resources company, led an internal review of a sanctions compliance matter, and provide day-to-day advice to the company on global sanctions and export control issues.
    • Provide day-to-day counseling and advice to a two major U.S.-based oil and gas companies, including counseling on sanctions, export controls, and antiboycott compliance applicable to their global operations and obtaining sanctions and export controls licenses.
    • Have advised, for more than two decades, a U.S. oilfield services company on U.S. export controls, sanctions, and antiboycott compliance, including securing export licensing to support the company’s worldwide operations, providing training in U.S. trade controls compliance, developing policies and procedures, and successfully resolving an antiboycott voluntary disclosure.
    • Advise leading companies in the media, manufacturing, sports, food, and other sectors on Venezuela and Cuba sanctions and export control issues.
    • Counsel numerous clients on the application of U.S. sanctions to the provision of food, medicine, and medical devices to Iran, Russia, Syria, and Cuba, including providing guidance on general and specific licensing and the use of license exceptions and helping companies comply with EAR restrictions on trade with Russia and Belarus.

    • Led an internal investigation for a U.S. manufacturer relating to trade with Iran, including guiding the company on OFAC compliance issues and SEC reporting requirements.
    • For a multinational media company, successfully resolved a sanctions disclosure relating to the North Korea sanctions, including conducting an internal investigation, drafting a voluntary disclosure, and engaging with the company’s auditors on the matter.
    • Represented dozens of clients in mergers and acquisitions activities, including conducting and responding to trade controls due diligence, crafting representations and warranties and other contractual provisions related to trade controls compliance, and filing M&A-related notifications with the State Department.
    • Successfully defended a $20 million trade-controls-related claim against a U.S. technology company related to the divestment of a business unit.

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  • Credentials
    Education
    • Harvard Law School, J.D., 2001
        • cum laude
    • Otterbein College, B.A., 1989
        • summa cum laude
    Bar Admissions
    • District of Columbia
    • Virginia
    Judicial Clerkship
    • Hon. J. Frederick Motz, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland, 2001 - 2002
    Pro Bono
    • Advice to a leading conservation organization on export controls applicable to technology used in wildlife protection.
    • Provide sanctions compliance advice to an international gender justice organization and a non-profit involved in promoting the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan.
    Accolades
    • Chambers USA, International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions (2017-2024) 
    • Chambers Global, International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions (2018-2023)
    • Legal 500 US, International Trade (2015-2016)
    Memberships and Affiliations
    • Society for International Affairs (SIA), Associate Member; Member of Fall 2022 Advanced Conference Committee
    • Past Co-Chair, Aerospace & Defense Industries Committee, American Bar Association (ABA) Section of International Law (2013-2015)

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