Practice Areas
National-security matters rarely fit neatly into a single category. A compliance question can become an investigation. A government inquiry can become an enforcement action. A business transaction can trigger national-security review. Beatrice & Asuncion helps clients navigate every stage of that lifecycle.
Export Enforcement
Representing clients in civil and criminal export-enforcement matters, including Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) administrative proceedings, antiboycott enforcement, civil penalty negotiations, Department of Justice investigations and prosecutions, and responses to government inquiries under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and related authorities.
Internal Investigations, Voluntary Self-Disclosures & Government Inquiries
Conducting internal investigations and compliance reviews to assess potential violations of export controls, sanctions, anti-money-laundering requirements, and related national-security regulations. The firm evaluates whether voluntary self-disclosures are appropriate, prepares and submits disclosures, develops remediation measures, and represents clients responding to inquiries and enforcement investigations by BIS, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC), and other agencies.
Export Controls
Counseling on the EAR, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and related controls governing sensitive technologies, goods, software, and technical data: classifications, licensing, commodity jurisdiction, technology transfers, deemed exports, encryption controls, advisory opinions, and supply-chain risk, particularly when these issues arise in transactions, investigations, or other government-facing matters.
Export & Sanctions Compliance
Building export-control and sanctions compliance programs that hold up under government scrutiny. That work includes counsel-led audits, program design, technology control plans, deemed-export procedures, restricted-party and end-use screening, transaction and process testing, and remediation. Services also include tailored training for boards, executives, legal and compliance teams, and employees, as well as ongoing outside compliance counsel. The firm pairs experience developing and enforcing these rules in government with experience applying them inside global companies.
Sanctions
Counseling clients on OFAC sanctions programs, from compliance, licensing, and due diligence to blocked-person and blocked-property issues, voluntary self-disclosures, investigations, and enforcement actions. The firm works with companies and financial institutions on sanctions risk, including its intersection with anti-money-laundering and other financial-crime requirements.
Technology Security, ICTS & Emerging Technologies
Advising companies on U.S. government reviews and restrictions affecting technology supply chains, including matters under the Information and Communications Technology and Services (ICTS) framework. The practice covers connected devices, telecommunications systems, software platforms, AI, advanced computing, and semiconductors, including technology-security risks arising from foreign ownership, control, or influence.
CFIUS & Foreign Investment
Advising on reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), national-security risk assessments, mitigation negotiations, and related proceedings involving sensitive technologies, critical infrastructure, and foreign ownership concerns.
Why Beatrice & Asuncion
Hands-On Experience
Each founder has handled export-control and national-security matters at both Justice and Commerce. They have investigated and tried cases on the front lines, led enforcement and regulatory teams, and helped shape the rules. They bring the judgment of lawyers who have done the work as well as directed it.
The View from the Inside
Regulations explain what the rules require. They do not explain how agencies evaluate voluntary self-disclosures, conduct enforcement investigations, negotiate civil penalties, or decide when a matter warrants criminal prosecution. Drawing on the firm’s government experience, our team understands how such cases actually unfold, what drives government decision-making, and how those matters are most effectively resolved.
Direct Partner Access
Every engagement is led by a partner. Clients have immediate access to the firm’s founding partners, whose decades of leadership span complex regulatory, enforcement, investigative, and national-security work.
Across the National-Security Landscape
The firm’s founders handled major national-security enforcement and regulatory matters, working across the Departments of Justice and Commerce and alongside Treasury, Defense, the Intelligence Community, and federal law-enforcement partners.
That work includes criminal and administrative export-enforcement cases involving unlawful exports to sanctioned countries and entities, diversions of controlled military and dual-use technologies, major BIS civil-penalty actions, foreign-investment reviews, Section 232 proceedings, and the development and implementation of significant national-security regulatory authorities, including the Department of Commerce’s ICTS framework.
The firm now brings that experience from inside government to the other side of the table, helping clients resolve complex national-security matters with their operations, critical relationships, and access to global markets at stake.