Jake Ely

Jake advises U.S. and multijurisdictional clients on compliance, transactional risk management, and investigations related to economic sanctions, export controls, and other international trade and national security laws and regulations, as well as environmental laws and ESG matters.

In particular, Jake has experience advising on a range of compliance, transactional, and investigatory matters involving: U.S. economic, financial, and trade related sanctions and export controls (including in particular those administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the U.S. Department of Commerce); anti-bribery and anti-corruption issues, principally with respect to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA); and the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970. His practice also includes advising on and managing filings related to national security risks posed by contemplated foreign investment into the U.S., particularly with respect to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Jake also advises on a broad range of environmental risks and issues with a focus on assessing and allocating environmental risks in complex cross-border business transactions. This includes, among other things, performing environmental and permitting due diligence and negotiating environmental provisions in various transaction documents, advising clients on regulatory obligations and potential liabilities relating to the presence, generation, manufacture, or release of, among other hazardous substances, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (or “PFAS”), and counseling parties interested in participating in voluntary and mandatory carbon compliance markets.