Kerry Contini

Practice Areas

Kerry Contini is a partner in the Firm's International Trade practice and Global Sanctions Investigations group, specializing in sanctions and export controls. She helps multinational companies navigate these ever-changing rules and guides them through investigations when compliance issues occur. Kerry provides strategic advice on related geopolitical risks, human rights, and supply chain issues.

Kerry has been ranked by Chambers Global and Chambers USA, with clients highlighting that "her advice and solutions are business-focused" and that she is "very practical and easy to work with." Legal 500 reported a client as stating that "Kerry is thoughtful, practical, efficient, and has really invested in getting to know our business and our team."

Kerry has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, Global Investigations Review, Bloomberg Law, the National Law Journal and Asian Legal Business. She is an editor of the Firm's Global Supply Chain Compliance Blog and is a regular contributor to the Firm's Global Sanctions & Export Controls Blog.

Kerry's practice focuses on trade sanctions (including OFAC), export controls (EAR, ITAR, NRC, DOE), and antiboycott laws and regulations.

Her practice involves the full range of compliance and investigations matters. She advises US and multinational companies on trade compliance programs, risk assessments, licensing, review of proposed transactions and enforcement matters. She regularly advises companies on investigations and voluntary self-disclosures, including cross-border investigations that involve potential violations across multiple jurisdictions. She provides strategic advice on the impact of trade compliance and geopolitical risks on major transactions, including M&A transactions, carve-outs and divestitures.

Kerry works regularly with companies across a wide range of industries, including in particular the energy, healthcare, consumer goods and luxury goods sectors.

Publications

• • Regular contributor to the Firm's Export Controls & Sanctions Update blog and Global Supply Chain Compliance Blog

• Co-author, “The UAE-Israel Abraham Accords – UAE boycott of Israel repealed but no change in US antiboycott laws,” WorldECR, issue 93, October 2020

• Co-author, “What You Need to Know Before Importing/Exporting Legal Cannabis Products,” Baker McKenzie Global Cannabis Compliance Blog, 31 July 2020

• Co-author, “Trade Sanctions in Sub-Saharan Africa,” WorldECR, issue 79, May 2019

• Co-author, “The Global Magnitsky Act,” Criminal Law Forum, 28 September 2018

• Co-author, “Due Diligence on the Oligarchs: predicting OFAC’s next move,” The FCPA Blog, 19 June 2018

• Co-author, “Due Diligence on the Oligarchs: predicting OFAC’s next move,” The FCPA Blog, 19 June 2018

Languages Spoken

English, Italian

Education

Expert in these Jurisdictions

USA