Eric R McClafferty

Practice Areas

Eric McClafferty focuses his practice on counseling, compliance programs, internal investigations, and enforcement matters related to economic sanctions and denied parties; export controls; the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA); customs, reviews, and investigations before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS); and antidumping and countervailing duties. His substantive knowledge of the law and insights into how regulators approach and address issues implicated by his clients’ activities allow him to develop effective approaches aligned with their objectives. Eric’s clients include producers of industrial, aerospace, high-technology and agricultural products such as chemicals, chemical processing equipment, pharmaceuticals, software, electronics, unmanned vehicles and military items, satellite technology and components, semiconductors, nuclear power plant components and specialty metals, powders and alloys. He works with all export control agencies of the U.S. government, including the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS); Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC); and counterparts at the Department of Defense (DOD), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Department of Energy (DOE). Eric has managed hundreds of export control internal and external investigations, bringing a large number of voluntary self-disclosures and other export enforcement matters to successful conclusions.