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BakerHostetler Offices

BakerHostetler
WASHINGTON SQUARE, SUITE 1100
1050 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20036-5304
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Melissa Mannino

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International Trade and National Security

Position

Melissa Mannino, co-leader of the International Trade and National Security team and a Chambers ranked attorney, is an experienced export controls, foreign investment (CFIUS) and economic sanctions practitioner. Her broad based national security practice includes advising a range of companies, from start-ups to industry leading businesses, across a variety of sectors on compliance with the U.S. export control and economic sanctions laws and regulations and the CFIUS laws and regulations. She also represents clients through each stage of proceedings before the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Treasury and State on export control, CFIUS and sanctions matters.

Melissa previously served as the Chief of the Enforcement and Litigation Division, Office of Chief Counsel for Industry and Security, at the U.S. Department of Commerce. She leverages her government and private practice experience to provide strategic and practical legal advice to clients.

Career

Prior Positions

U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Chief Counsel for Industry and Security

Chief, Enforcement and Litigation Division: Senior Attorney, Attorney-Advisor

Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia

U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Special Matters: Counsel

U.S. Senate, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Counsel

Memberships

Education

J.D., New England School of Law, cum laude; New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement, Technical Editor

B.A., Union College

Bar Admissions

District of Columbia

Maryland

Massachusetts

Court Admissions

U.S. District Court, District of Maryland

Lawyer Rankings

United States > International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions

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Melissa Mannino – BakerHostetler

BakerHostetler‘s International Trade group, stationed in Washington DC, has notable expertise in assisting clients in the manufacturing, medical device, forest products, and chemicals industries. In the customs space, the team is capable of providing compliance counsel, structuring supply changes, addressing country-of-origin questions, and litigating on behalf of their clients. Michael S. Snarr represents a variety of U.S.-based importers in a challenge to the imposition of 301 duties on imports from China. The firm’s export controls branch handles compliance assessments, international investigations, and due diligence with Melissa Mannino a well-regarded lawyer in this market. Barbara Linney and Lana Muranovic, who is based in Houston, are important team members.

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