Alan also has experience with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) national security reviews of acquisitions of US businesses by foreign persons, US customs laws and regulations, US anti-boycott regulation and US government rules and regulations on procurement from foreign sources.

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• Advised multinational companies on compliance requirements and procedures to respond to US sanctions against Syria*
• Advised multinational companies on US state-imposed Iran sanctions*
• Advised multinational firms on implications for non-US operations of all US sanctions programs, including constructing compliance programs and providing compliance training*
• Assisted US and non-US companies in applying for and obtaining US government export licenses*
• Represented US companies in export violation enforcement proceedings*
• Assisted multinational companies in the preparation of compliance programs for US export controls, sanctions and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act regulations*
• Advised major US and non-US companies on defense-related issues arising from acquisitions of US defense contractors by non-US persons, including addressing issues that arise from review processes under Foreign Ownership, Control or Influence, and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States*
• Advised US and multinational companies in pharmaceutical, chemical, oil and gas, and automotive sectors in anti-boycott compliance issues*
• Assisted US defense and energy sector companies in preparing and submitting quarterly anti-boycott reports to the Department of Commerce and annual reports to the Department of the Treasury*
• Assisted multinational companies in establishing anti-boycott compliance and reporting programs*
• Advised Canadian companies and their US subsidiaries on the application of North American Free Trade Agreement and World Trade Organization (WTO) procurement rules to US federal and state government procurements*
• Represented a UK company in a debarment proceeding before the World Bank anti-bribery panel, in connection with a World Bank-funded government contract in Central Asia*
• Represented various entities in claims against Iraq before the UN Compensation Commission*
• Represented US-Czech claimants in restitution proceedings regarding property expropriated during World War II in Czechoslovakia*
• Advised the accounting profession on structural reorganization methods to limit accountants’ liability*

Trade Remedies Matters

• Advised the government of Canada in matters involving US countervailing duty law, including countervailing duty investigations involving softwood lumber, utility scale wind towers, fabricated structural steel, supercalendered paper, uncoated groundwood paper, live cattle, live swine and wheat*
• Advised a German manufacturer of thermal paper in antidumping proceedings*
• Advised the government of Mexico in countervailing duty proceedings involving sugar*
• Advised US and multinational companies on NAFTA and customs compliance issues*
• Advised Canadian lumber producers in antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings*
• Advised the government of Canada in a WTO dispute involving dairy exports*
• Advised a Canadian mussel producer in a US antidumping investigation before the US Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission*
• Represented the US wire rod and nail industries in numerous antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings before the US Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission*
• Represented Nikon Corp. in an antidumping proceeding before the US Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission*

*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.

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