Michael is a senior coverage advisor within the agency’s worldwide commerce follow advising shoppers in varied worldwide commerce, enforcement, and compliance points associated to U.S. financial sanctions and export controls, with a deal with the maritime, power, and monetary sectors, together with digital belongings and securities. At Akin, he attracts on his deep expertise growing and implementing U.S. financial sanctions and interesting with trade, overseas governments, and Capitol Hill to help shoppers on issues involving sanctions in addition to worldwide commerce coverage and anti-money laundering, together with by means of evaluation of laws.
Michael beforehand served as Deputy Assistant Director for Policy at OFAC, the place he managed over a dozen financial sanctions applications associated to the Center East, Asia, and international subjects corresponding to cyber threats, and designed complicated sanctions choices and represented the company to advance technique towards delicate nationwide safety and financial points associated to China. He additionally beforehand served as a Senior Sanctions Policy Advisor the place he applied sanctions in response to Russia’s warfare towards Ukraine, novel and sophisticated funding restrictions on Chinese language army corporations, and different initiatives corresponding to growing Hong Kong-related sanctions and enhancing sanctions with respect to North Korea and international human rights abuse and corruption.
Earlier in his profession, he served as a Deputy Workforce Chief and Senior Advisor within the U.S. State Division’s nonproliferation bureau, overseeing the launch of technical applications to enhance worldwide sanctions implementation and new agreements to pursue bilateral and regional cooperation to forestall the unfold of weapons of mass destruction. His expertise in delicate worldwide and financial coverage and nationwide safety points and legislative affairs make him a trusted advisor to shoppers navigating the U.S. sanctions and export management area.
