Ms Stephanie Brown Cripps > Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Ms Stephanie Brown Cripps
Work Department
Litigation
Position
Counsel
Career
Stephanie advises clients in connection with US economic sanctions, export and defense trade controls, the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and US anti-money laundering law.
Her experience also includes cross-border public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, venture capital and general corporate governance.
Stephanie earned her JD at the New York University School of Law where she was an editor of the Journal of International Law and Politics. She received her BA, magna cum laude, from Yale University. She is currently a Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Export Controls and Economic Sanctions Committee of the Section of International Law and an active member of the OFAC Practitioners Group.
Languages
English, French and Italian
Memberships
- Member, OFAC Practitioners Group
Education
- JD, New York University School of Law
- MA, Text and Performance Studies, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and King’s College London
- BA, Comparative Literature, magna cum laude, Yale University
Lawyer Rankings
United States > International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
(Rising stars)Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP’s multidisciplinary practice is distinguished by its ability to resource complex regulatory, transactional and litigation work within one team. Washington DC-based department co-chair Nabeel Yousef routinely engages with government agencies on sanctions, export control, and anti-corruption matters; he recently advised BT on regulatory compliance issues, with a focus on the Commerce Department’s Entity List restrictions on Huawei. Litigator Kimberly Zelnick co-chairs the department from New York, and is noted for her financial institutions expertise. New York-based counsel Stephanie Brown Cripps brings to bear strong transactional experience.
Lawyer Rankings
- Rising stars United States > International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Customs, export controls and economic sanctions United States > International Trade
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Tax > Financial products
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Tax > Financial products
Firm Rankings
- Tax > Financial products
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation