Wendy Wysong

Wendy focuses her practice on regulatory compliance and white-collar defense of international laws, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Export Administration Regulations (EAR), US sanctions laws and regulations administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and US anti-boycott laws, as well as the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). She and her team of export controls and sanctions specialists have been based in Hong Kong for over 9 years.

As a former Assistant US Attorney in Washington and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement in the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry & Security (BIS), Wendy offers clients a unique combination of experience and insight as both a prosecutor and regulator before courts and agencies. Ranked as a Band 1 practitioner by Chambers in its Asia Pacific and Global guides, clients report that Wendy is “at the top of her game technically” and “brilliant at bringing to bear a global picture of how regulators react.” One insider noted that “she is the most experienced white-collar export lawyer that I know.”

Wendy’s experience includes:

• Led an international team that represented a Chinese telecommunications company before the DOJ, BIS, and OFAC, charged with violating US export controls and sanctions, and securing the first ever “Temporary General License” to the Entity List enabling the company to stay in business during the investigation;

• Appointed as an ITAR special compliance monitor by both the US Department of Justice and the US Department of State;

• Advises and represents numerous multinational companies and individuals in developing, implementing, and testing compliance programs; filing disclosures; subpoena responses; internal and government investigations; risk assessments; removal from OFAC, State, and BIS restricted party lists; and securing release of blocked funds.

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