Insights

Washington – March 11, 2025: Foreign Investment Watch named Crowell & Moring partner Caroline Brown to its list of Top Advisors 2025. The list recognizes the “top advisors who provide advice and counsel concerning foreign investment and national security in the U.S. and abroad.” This is the second consecutive year that Brown has been ranked.

Global Investigations Review has named Crowell & Moring’s Investigations and White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement groups to this year’s GIR 100, an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices.

Caroline E. Brown, a partner in our White Collar and Regulatory Enforcement and International Trade groups, will moderate discussions on compliance with economic sanctions and the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s restrictions on outbound investment at the American Conference Institute's 15th Annual New York Forum on Economic Sanctions.  On December 3 and 4, respectively, Brown will moderate a roundtable entitled "Cross-Functional Collaboration: Strategies for Clear Communication and Training Across Functions and Jurisdictions" and a panel entitled "The Rise of Outbound Investment Rules and the Intersection with Sanctions and Export Controls: New Legal and Compliance Considerations Affecting Transactions."

Caroline Brown is set to lead the keynote fireside discussion at the highly regarded 14th Annual New York Forum on Economic Sanctions hosted by ACI.

The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”), various federal agencies, and Congress are all actively investigating recipients of federal funding for alleged waste, fraud and abuse—with a keen focus on recipients of hundreds of billions of dollars in grants, loans, and other funding through the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Our experienced panel will discuss the potential legal and political exposure arising from those investigations, and how to mitigate that risk by establishing best practices for responding to agency and congressional investigations.

Join Crowell’s International Trade and Government Affairs attorneys as they explore the anticipated Trump Administration’s tariffs and their implications along with new customs and trade remedy issues facing importers.

In a panel moderated by Stewart H. Lapayowker, Esq. (Lapayowker Jet Counsel P.A.) and sponsored by the National Aircraft Finance Association, Crowell attorneys Caroline Brown and Jeremy Iloulian alongside Cassia Sant'Anna (Corporate Trade Compliance Officer for Embraer S.A.) will dive into Russian-related sanctions and export controls and what they mean for the due diligence process surrounding purchasing and selling aircrafts. They will address critical areas such as: