Join us for this second webinar in our series aimed at exploring best practices in mergers & acquisitions involving government contractors. In this webinar, we will focus on national security-related issues and risks impacting transactions involving government contractors. Topics will include:

  • Due diligence risk areas, including facility and personnel clearances, supply chain security, cybersecurity, export controls, and economic and trade sanctions
  • Considerations for integration, including national security-related notices, consents, and approvals

The impact of foreign ownership and foreign investment and related considerations (e.g., national security reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. and FOCI mitigation by the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency)

Adelicia Cliffe
Partner- Washington, D.C.
acliffe@crowell.com
+1.202.624.2816

Jonathan Baker
Partner – Washington, D.C.
jbaker@crowell.com
+1.202.624.2641

Questions

For questions about this webinar, please contact MarketingEvents@crowell.com. 

CLE Credit

Continuing Legal Education — We will provide a certificate of attendance and other materials to use in seeking continuing education credits.

If you are not Frances Hadfield, but would like to register for this event, please click here.

Dj Wolff
Partner; Attorney at Law – Washington, D.C.
djwolff@crowell.com
+1.202.624.2548

Stephanie Crawford
Counsel – Washington, D.C.
scrawford@crowell.com
+1.202.624.2811

 

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Photo of John Brew John Brew

John Brew is the former chair of Crowell & Moring’s International Trade Group and a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.

John has extensive experience in import and export trade regulation, collaborating with corporations, trade associations, foreign governments, and nongovernmental organizations on…

John Brew is the former chair of Crowell & Moring’s International Trade Group and a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.

John has extensive experience in import and export trade regulation, collaborating with corporations, trade associations, foreign governments, and nongovernmental organizations on customs administration, enforcement, compliance litigation, legislation, and policy matters. He represents clients in proceedings at the administrative and judicial levels as well as before Congress and the international bureaucracies that handle customs and trade matters. John advises clients on all substantive import regulatory issues handled by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, such as classification, valuation, origin, marking, tariff preference programs, other agency regulations, admissibility, customs brokerage, Section 321, drawback, foreign trade zones, duty recovery programs, import restrictions, quotas, audits, prior disclosures, penalties, investigations, Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism and trade compliance programs, importations under bond, the Jones Act, and vessel repairs.

Photo of Dj Wolff Dj Wolff

David (Dj) Wolff is the co-chair of Crowell & Moring’s International Trade Group and a director with Crowell Global Advisors, the firm’s trade policy affiliate.

At Crowell & Moring, he serves on the steering committee for the International Trade Group, where his practice

David (Dj) Wolff is the co-chair of Crowell & Moring’s International Trade Group and a director with Crowell Global Advisors, the firm’s trade policy affiliate.

At Crowell & Moring, he serves on the steering committee for the International Trade Group, where his practice focuses on all aspects of compliance with U.S. economic sanctions, including day-to-day compliance guidance, developing compliance programs, responding to government inquiries, conducting internal investigations, and representation during civil and criminal enforcement proceedings. Dj works regularly with non-U.S. clients, both in Europe and Asia, to evaluate the jurisdictional reach of U.S. sanction authorities to their global operations, identify and manage the potential conflict of laws that can result from that reach, as well as to support client’s design, implementation, and evaluation of a corresponding risk-based sanctions compliance program. Dj also regularly leads teams in diligence efforts on trade and related regulatory areas on behalf of his U.S. and non-U.S. clients in the M&A arena, having successfully closed more than 30 deals with an aggregate valuation of several billion dollars over the last 18 months.

Dj is ranked by Chambers USA in International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions. He has previously been recognized by Law360 as a Rising Star in International Trade (2020), by The National Law Journal as a “DC Rising Star” (2019), by Who’s Who Legal: Investigations as a “Future Leader” (2018 and 2019), Acritas Star as an Acritas Stars Independently Rated Lawyers (2019), by Global Investigations Review as one of the “40 under 40” in Investigations internationally (2017), and WorldECR as one of the five finalists for the WorldECR Young Practitioner of the Year award (2016).

Photo of Stephanie Crawford Stephanie Crawford

Stephanie Crawford is a trusted counselor to a broad range of industries facing reorganizations, transactions, national security issues, and questions of supply chain management. Stephanie provides related mergers and acquisitions, counseling, litigation, international arbitration, and investigations services to clients in the aerospace and

Stephanie Crawford is a trusted counselor to a broad range of industries facing reorganizations, transactions, national security issues, and questions of supply chain management. Stephanie provides related mergers and acquisitions, counseling, litigation, international arbitration, and investigations services to clients in the aerospace and defense, communications, energy, information technology, and consumer products sectors.

Stephanie has substantial experience with both buy-side and sell-side transactions. She has led government contracts diligence for numerous private equity entities and defense contractors. She assists clients with navigating post-closing government requirements, including unique license transfers and approvals; novation and change of name regulations; and Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency communications and foreign ownership, control, and influence (FOCI) mitigation.

Stephanie counsels clients on supply chain, sourcing, and national security regulations and requirements. Such counseling includes compliance with the Defense Production Act, including priority orders, ratings and associated regulations; the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act; and National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM) regulations. She is also known for her ability to solve immediate and business-threatening System for Award Management (SAM) and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) CAGE Code problems.

Stephanie defends government contractors facing potential tort litigation with a nexus to their government contracts and facing supply chain and national security-related investigations, litigation, and arbitrations.

Stephanie’s pro bono practice focuses on a broad range of veterans’ issues, including disability ratings and discharge upgrades