International Trade Archives - The BTI Consulting Group

Christopher B. Monahan

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:16:29 +0000

Chris Monahan advises U.S. and international clients on law and policy affecting complex international transactions across a range of industries. He has extensive experience navigating the nuances of U.S. regulation of international trade and foreign investment, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), sanctions programs administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), matters in front of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS), and compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

He designs and manages international investigations, audits and compliance assessments, along with the preparation of disclosures and responses to government agency inquiries and subpoenas related to violations of the ITAR, EAR and OFAC sanctions programs.

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Bart M. McMillan

BTIConsulting — Wed, 29 May 2024 14:01:48 +0000

Bart McMillan leads the Chicago Office’s International Trade Compliance Subpractice within the North American International Commercial Practice. He advises US and non-US companies on international trade compliance matters arising under US export controls, trade sanctions, and antiboycott rules, as well as under US customs laws with respect to classification, valuation, country of origin, free trade agreements, and the protection of intellectual property at the US border. His practice also covers anti-bribery and specialized commercial compliance issues in sales and sales promotion under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), non-US anti-bribery law, and non-US commercial laws. Mr. McMillan has been practicing with Baker McKenzie for the entirety of his legal career, and during 2004 he was located in the Washington, DC office. He is a frequent speaker on international trade compliance matters at seminars, conferences, and company training events. While pursuing his J.D. at NYU School of Law, Mr. McMillan was Staff Editor (1997-98) and Associate Editor (1998-99), New York University Law Review; and he participated in a semester exchange to the Central European University (Budapest) (Legal Studies Dep’t).

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Stephen J. Orava

BTIConsulting — Wed, 29 May 2024 13:55:40 +0000

Steve Orava focuses on international trade and related regulatory and policy matters, including litigation and enforcement. As Chair of our International Trade practice and the manager of our Brussels office, Steve represents clients in a wide range of trade investigations and disputes.

Steve advises clients on international trade, market access, investment, climate change, and other regulatory and policy matters, including related litigation and enforcement actions.

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Stephen P. Vaughn

BTIConsulting — Wed, 29 May 2024 13:55:22 +0000

Stephen P. Vaughn is a Partner in the International Trade Team of King & Spalding who works primarily on international trade litigation and policy matters. In April 2019, Stephen completed more than two years of service as the General Counsel for the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). In that position, he managed a team of government attorneys representing U.S. interests in both trade negotiations and trade litigation. During two months in early 2017, Stephen also served as the acting U.S. Trade Representative. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost authorities on current U.S. trade policy, as well as one of the most talented U.S. trade remedy litigators.

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Richard Newcomb

tthorp — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 22:06:32 +0000

Richard Newcomb has considerable international experience dealing with target governments, front-line states, like-minded allies, multilateral organizations (the United Nations, the European Union and others), financial and business communities worldwide, and others who are responsible for compliance with asset controls and economic sanctions and embargo programs.

Richard is adept at handling regulatory procedures relating to international transactions, including navigating the requirements of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the Bank Secrecy Act (and anti-money laundering laws), Export Administration Act, Anti-Boycott compliance, US Customs law and the relevant portions of the Patriot Act.

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Peter Lichtenbaum

tthorp — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 22:06:17 +0000

Peter Lichtenbaum advises clients on a broad array of international regulatory compliance and trade matters, including export controls, economic sanctions, national security reviews of foreign investments, anti-corruption laws, market access, and international trade disputes. He has specialized experience in the aerospace and defense industries.

Mr. Lichtenbaum is ranked in Band 1 for Export Controls & Sanctions in Chambers USA (2019), which reports that he is one of those rare lawyers who thinks through all the options moving forward. Chambers describes him as a go-to lawyer for those with export controls and sanctions issues.

Mr. Lichtenbaum has recently helped several companies establish, review or enhance their compliance programs. He is advising major technology companies regarding the impact of recent and ongoing export control developments on their businesses. He has worked with many leading aerospace and defense companies on internal investigations and disclosures related to trade controls and China. He also advises many of these companies on export control reform and defense trade policy issues, including international agreements on the regulation of defense trade. He has extensive experience with the trade controls issues that arise in the U.S. system for national security review of foreign investment, helping companies to identify issues and mitigate government concerns.

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Corinne A. Goldstein

tthorp — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 22:01:38 +0000

Corinne Goldstein counsels clients on the application to their worldwide operations of U.S. economic sanctions, export controls, and antiboycott programs. She has particular expertise advising on all of the sanctions programs administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), including the U.S. sanctions against Iran, Russia, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea, as well as list-based sanctions. Her clients include leading U.S. and non-U.S. companies in the oil and gas, financial services, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, defense, and general manufacturing sectors. Ms. Goldstein has been consistently ranked by Chambers Global and Chambers USA, as well as Legal 500, as a knowledgeable leader in the fields of economic sanctions and export controls who provides extremely practical advice in these areas.

Ms. Goldstein’s work includes advising on complex interpretive issues, preparing corporate policies and procedures, developing compliance and training programs, securing licenses, conducting internal investigations of potential violations of applicable regulations, and representing clients in enforcement proceedings. Ms. Goldstein has particular expertise and is a frequent speaker on the application of the U.S. sanctions programs to U.S. and non-U.S. parties. She also counsels clients concerning compliance with the Commerce Department’s Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the Defense Department’s International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), antiboycott programs administered by the Commerce and Treasury Departments, and restrictions on exports of nuclear technology and equipment administered by the U.S. Energy Department and Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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