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Section Chair - International Trade (Firmwide) Partner
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Paul Luther's practice focuses on trade compliance and enforcement defense. He has extensive experience with respect to all aspects of U.S. export controls and economic sanctions, the U.S. Antiboycott Regulations, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, CFIUS reviews and investigations and U.S. customs issues.
Mr. Luther has represented clients in the telecommunications, chemical, defense, petroleum, avionics, satellite, computer, software and pharmaceuticals industries in securing government authorization to export or re-export highly regulated products and technologies to various regions and countries, such as Russia, the Middle East, India and China. He also regularly advises clients as to whether specific transactions, business structures and overseas ventures are consistent with applicable U.S. legal regimes.
Mr. Luther has worked extensively with clients to develop, upgrade and implement compliance programs and has represented clients facing enforcement actions brought by the Departments of Justice, Commerce, State, Treasury and Homeland Security.
Mr. Luther has significant experience in public international law and international litigation. He has advised governments and private parties on boundary and maritime delimitation disputes and the effect of such disputes upon the rights of private parties seeking to develop natural resources in disputed regions. He has provided representation to sovereign states in arbitrations regarding land and maritime boundaries.
Mr. Luther speaks Spanish and Portuguese.
Export Controls, Sanctions and Antiboycott
CFIUS/FINSA
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Customs
Recognized by Ethisphere Institute's Attorneys Who Matter, as a "Specialist" in Trade/Export Compliance, 2012 & 2013
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Global Legal Chronicle
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Law360
Global Legal Chronicle
Gas Processing News
International Trade Update
International Trade Update
On July 23, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced the entry into a $1,400,301.40 settlement with Payoneer, Inc. (“Payoneer”), a global provider of online payment distribution solutions headquartered in New York, for over 2,200 apparent violations of multiple U.S. sanctions programs.
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On April 19, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced the entry into a $435,003 settlement with Alliance Steel, Inc. (“Alliance”), a fully integrated manufacturer of metal building systems, structural steel, and components headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for 61 apparent violations of the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations (“ITSR”), mainly resulting from the Company’s lack of understanding as to the application of U.S. sanctions laws to its isolated international activity.
On March 29, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) announced that it will begin seizing imports of certain disposable gloves manufactured by Top Glove Corp. Bhd. (“Top Glove”), the world’s leading producer of disposable rubber gloves based in Malaysia, upon determining that sufficient evidence exists to support a finding that Top Glove is manufacturing the products with the use of convict, forced, or indentured labor.1
On March 19, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) announced the entry into a $122,000 settlement with Comtech XiCom Technology, Inc. (“Comtech XiCom”), a leading supplier of high power amplifiers for satellite communications based in Santa Clara, CA, for three apparent violations of the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”), caused by Comtech XiCom’s mistaken belief that certain exports could be made without BIS license or authorization.
On March 16, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced the entry into a $216,464 settlement with UniControl, Inc. (“UniControl”), a process controls and instrumentation manufacturer headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, for 21 apparent violations of the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations (“ITSR”), mostly resulting from UniControl’s failure to address several warning signs that shipments may be intended specifically for supply, transshipment, or reexport to Iran.(1)
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