Beth Peters
Partner Global Regulatory
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Recognized by Chambers and Legal 500, Beth Peters has over 30 years of experience advising clients on international trade and immigration matters. Beth was the Co-Director of our International Trade and Investment Group for over 15 years and is currently on the Global Regulatory and Intellectual Property Leadership team.
Beth advises clients on international trade laws, including export control, cyber, national security, sanctions, customs, anti-boycott, and anti-money laundering/USA Patriot Act regulations. She handles immigration matters and assesses cutting-edge technology transfer and deemed export issues.
Beth advises financial institutions, universities, telecommunications, satellite, engineering, chemical, defense, life science, and other companies in complying with the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Export Administration Regulations (EAR), nuclear export controls, complicated compliance, licensing, and enforcement matters.
"Beth Peters has 'an encyclopedic knowledge of U.S. laws and excellent experience of their application outside the USA' and 'clients recommend her as a highly skilled and efficient practitioner,'" (Chambers USA); "first-class in export procedures work" (Chambers Global); "Beth is the one with the most 'secret sauce,' that almost ineffable quality that transcends subject matter competency and business judgment to make a practitioner more than the sum of her parts. Maybe it's her emotional intelligence, but Beth has a quality that puts clients at ease even when faced with significant compliance challenges." (World Export Control News Awards Export Control Practitioner of the Year); 25 most respected sanctions attorneys in D.C. (Global Investigations Review); "good relations with high-ranking government officials and is consequently a go-to practitioner for clients seeking strategic and nuanced advice relating to export controls and sanctions."(Legal 500 Hall of Fame).
Representative experience
Work with clients to develop risk-based trade compliance programs, including conducting audits and implementing training programs.
Help companies to classify goods, technology, and software and obtain licenses and classifications under the EAR, ITAR, and nuclear export controls.
Counseled insurance companies, including property, casualty, marine, and life lines on sanctions enforcement under OFAC and state regulations.
Advised financial institutions on export control, AML, anti-boycott, and sanctions issues in fund transfers, handled training, audits, and disclosure.
Advised companies and universities regarding export control and immigration laws including anti-descrimination provisions as well as deemed exports of technology and software source code.
Counseled top U.S. research universities on sanctions, including campuses and activities and obtained OFAC licenses.
Credentials
- J.D., Columbia Law School, 1990
- B.A., Duke University, Phi Beta Kappa, 1987
- Summer Program, Oxford University, 1985
- District of Columbia
- New York
- Former Co-Chairman, International Trade Committee, District of Columbia Bar
- Former Advisor, Law 360 International Trade Editorial Board, 2013-2014
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association
- Member, International Compliance Professionals Association (ICPA)
- Member, National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA)
- Member, Society of International Affairs
- Member, Women's White Collar Defense Association, DC Chapter