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Melissa Mannino
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Work Department
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