Mark Clifford helps clients navigate their most complex and sensitive U.S. sanctions and export controls compliance and enforcement matters. He regularly represents clients before the key U.S. trade controls regulators, including the U.S. Departments of State, Treasury, Commerce, and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Mark provides strategic counsel to U.S. and non-U.S. companies in the energy, aerospace and defense, life sciences, financial services, telecommunications, technology, and consumer goods sectors, among others. He has extensive experience managing internal and external risk assessments, guiding clients in establishing or enhancing their trade controls compliance programs, advising on transactional due diligence, and obtaining sanctions and export control licenses from U.S. regulators.

Mark also leverages his skills as a former litigator to effectively represent clients in voluntary disclosures and enforcement actions involving alleged civil and/or criminal violations of economic sanctions and export control laws and regulations. He has helped clients successfully resolve enforcement matters before every major U.S. trade controls enforcement agency and the U.S. Department of Justice.