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Practice Areas :
Homeland Security, Defense, and Technology Transfer
Lawyers in the Patton Boggs Homeland Security, Defense, and Technology Transfer Practice are internationally recognized for their strategic approach to analyzing and addressing the myriad laws related to national security – laws that affect domestic and international businesses.
Today’s global business environment imposes additional risks to U.S. entities conducting business within the United States or abroad. The increasingly intangible nature of business matters – such as customers seeking not only tangible goods, but technology, intellectual property, and transactional services – subjects these matters to a host of U.S. laws and regulations that apply both in the United States and extraterritorially.
Patton Boggs advises U.S. and foreign corporations, trade and industry associations, governments, and other entities on compliance issues involving all relevant government agencies, including the Departments of Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security, State, and Treasury, as well as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the military services, the USTR, and a host of multilateral regimes.
Our experience covers a broad range of issues that link business to defense and national security – from export/import compliance to managing audits, investigations, and due diligence reviews, from overseeing enforcement and disclosure matters to addressing strategic licensing issues. We represent a broad base of U.S. defense and high-technology companies, as well as foreign subsidiaries and entities involved in globalized activities abroad.
The firm is also skilled at representing national and international government clients. Our lawyers frequently assist local, state, and foreign governments in complex transactions that involve legal, commercial, and political issues relating to national security policy. Our group’s success is based on one overriding goal – to resolve client issues not only to the satisfaction of the client, but in a manner that meets the needs of all parties, including the U.S. Government.
In addition to the extensive portion of the practice devoted to export/import compliance, another important aspect of the practice is assisting clients who work with the Department of Defense, whether as contractors, vendors, or in other capacities. As the largest federal agency, the Department of Defense buys over $250 billion in goods and services each year, and is involved in a wide range of activities beyond its traditional military roles and missions. We are able to address successfully the many complex issues that our clients face – whether opportunities or problems – in dealing with an institution of such enormous size and complexity.
Representative Matters:
- Conducting comprehensive investigations into export violations under the Arms Export Control Act and the Export Administration Regulations, and settling administrative actions on behalf of several major defense contractors.
- Conducting comprehensive export due diligence during acquisitions and divestitures for several major Fortune 50 companies, uncovering export-related successor liability issues, presenting them to the U.S. Government, and resolving the issues favorably.
- Preparing, negotiating, and obtaining export authorizations on behalf of companies and law firms conducting litigation and arbitration involving goods and technologies subject to the Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
- Investigating, drafting, submitting and settling voluntary disclosures before the Departments of State, Commerce, and Treasury.
- Reviewing, preparing, submitting, and resolving foreign ownership issues under Exon-Florio and before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
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