Alexandra Baj

Alexandra Baj heads Steptoe's International Trade and Regulatory Compliance group. She advises on export controls and economic sanctions laws and regulations, anti-corruption investigations and compliance, international trade, and security clearance issues. Known for her practical and efficient advice, Alexandra has decades of experience in complex international business issues. She represents clients in many industries, from aerospace and defense to metals and mining, telecommunications, software, energy, and food processing and medical devices.

Alexandra's international compliance practice covers export controls, sanctions, and anti-corruption internal investigations and enforcement matters, regulatory analysis, compliance program development and implementation, licensing, export control jurisdictional and classification analysis, encryption export controls, restricted party export and sanctions advice (including complex Entity List matters and sanctions de-listing), and mergers and acquisitions due diligence.

She has experience advising on export controls under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), US sanctions regulations administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) (particularly in the area of Russia/Ukraine-related sanctions), and, in the anti-corruption area, on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other statutes.

Alexandra also counsels clients on trade issues arising out of the US antidumping, countervailing duty, and safeguards statutes, as well as bilateral and multilateral relationships with various US trading partners to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization (WTO), and customs matters with US Customs and Border Protection.

Alexandra has experience advising clients regarding personnel and facility security clearance issues for businesses working with classified information pursuant to the National Industrial Security Program (NISP). Alexandra represents clients regarding facility clearance issues in mergers and acquisitions and restructuring and appeals of adverse personnel security clearance determinations.