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Of Counsel

Lawyer Overview

Gregory Husisian is of counsel with Foley & Lardner LLP, where he is a member of the Corporate Compliance & Enforcement and Appellate Practices.

Mr. Husisian has extensive experience in export controls and issues arising from international trade. He regularly advises clients regarding various export control issues under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) restrictions and the Department of Commerce's dual-use regulations (EAR), as well sanctions/embargo issues under the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) regulations. His practice includes advising companies regarding risk management, licensing, and dealing with potential violations.

• Counseling numerous clients regarding export-control and sanction needs, including through the creation of compliance/risk-management programs, internal investigations of potential problems, and legal analysis of a wide variety of export-control and sanction issues
• Counseling a major international company involved in a takeover of a company that was under investigation by the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission for alleged FCPA wrongdoing; the matter was resolved in a manner that permitted the acquisition to be completed
• Representing the Government of Canada in litigation involving Softwood Lumber from Canada, resulting in a ruling by the Court of International Trade that the U.S. Government had illegally retained over $5 billion in duties
• Representing a large provider of uranium enrichment services in antidumping and countervailing duty actions at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Court of International Trade, resulting in favorable rulings ordering the return of all collected duties
• Representing a U.S. chemical company in bringing antidumping petitions and administrative reviews under the antidumping duty laws, resulting in triple-digit margins against Chinese importers of the subject merchandise
• Representing a large Japanese/European chemical company in a sunset review, resulting in the revocation of long-standing antidumping duty orders

• "Export Controls and Sanctions," International Trade Laws of the United States: Statutes and Strategies (forthcoming treatise by Thompson Reuters)
• "The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act," International Trade Laws of the United States: Statutes and Strategies (forthcoming treatise by Thompson Reuters)
• The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Coping with Corruption in Transitional Economies (1997) (treatise by Oceana Publications)
• "The Subsidies Agreement," Chapter 9, The World Trade Organization: The Multilateral Trade Framework for the 21st Century and U.S. Implementing Legislation (1996) (treatise by the American Bar Association)

• "Coping with U.S. Regulation of International Conduct (Part II): Compliance Strategies for Export Controls and Sanctions," 23 Insights: The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor, No. 10 (forthcoming in December 2009)
• "Coping with the New Export Control Paradigm," Law360 (September 2009)
• "The Sanctions Paradox," Cornell Law Forum (March 1998)
• "Extraterritorial Sanctions in an Interdependent World," International and National Security Law News (Fall 1996)

• "Recent Opinion Sheds Light on the Relevance of Due Diligence to the FCPA's Knowledge' Requirement," 7 Corporate Accountability no. 45 at 1346 (November 2009)
• "Coping with U.S. Regulation of International Conduct (Part I): Compliance Strategies for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act," 23 Insights: The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor, No. 9 (November 2009)
• "The Knowledge' Requirement of the FCPA Anti-Bribery Provisions: Effectuating or Frustrating Congressional Intent," 24 Andrews Litigation Reporter: White-Collar Crime, No. 1, at 3 (October 2009)
• "The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Risk-Management and Compliance Strategies For High-Tech Companies," for the Practicing Law Institute's Conference on FCPA: Implications for Technology Companies (September 2009)
• "The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Risk-Management and Compliance Strategies For Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical Companies," for the American Conference Institute's Conference on the FCPA and Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Industries (March 2009)
• "Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Dealing with Illicit Payments in Transitional and Emerging Economies," 8 International Quarterly 183 (April 1996) (reprinted in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Reporter)
• "The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Select Issues in the NIS and Other Transitional Economies," 5 East-West Executive Guide, No. 5, at 24 (May 1995)
• "The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Select Issues in the NIS and Other Transitional Economies," 6 Russia and Commonwealth Business Law Report, No. 3, at 1 (May 1995)

• "International Legal Developments in Review: 2008," 43 The International Lawyer 335 (International Trade) (Summer 2009)
• "International Legal Developments in Review: 2007," 42 The International Lawyer 323 (International Trade) (Summer 2008)
• "Judicial Review by the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Under 19 U.S.C. 1581(c) of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Determinations Issued by the Department of Commerce," 38 Georgetown Journal of International Law 39 (Fall 2006)
• "When a New Sheriff Comes to Town: The Impending Showdown Between the U.S. Trade Court and the World Trade Organization," St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary 457 (Spring 2003)
• "Sunset's Dawn: A New Day Under the Trade Laws," 6 Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, No. 5, at 10 (May 1998)
• "Market Access in the New World Order," 3 Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, No. 10, at 8 (1995)
• "Antidumping and Anticircumvention: The New Regime," 3 Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, No. 10, at 8 (1995)
• "The Ascent of the Intellectual: How the U.S. Moved to Protect American Intellectual Property Rights in China," 2 International Trade Law and Regulation 54 (May/June 1995)

• "The Globalization of Mass Torts," International Commercial Litigation Reporter (1996)
• "What Standard of Care Should Govern the World's Shortest Editorials?: An Analysis of Bond Rating Agency Liability," 75 Cornell Law Review 411 (1991)

Areas of Practice

• International Trade & Customs
• Business Litigation
• Corporate Compliance & Enforcement
• Appellate

West Practice Categories

Business & Trade, Customs, Business & Commercial Law

Bar Admissions

• New York, 1992
• District of Columbia, 1993

Education

• Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York, 1990
  J.D.
  Honors: magna cum laude
• Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1987
  B.A.

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