Ana Amador

Ana Amador is an international trade and regulatory compliance lawyer dually based in New York and Brussels. She advises sovereign governments, multinational corporations, and industry groups on complex cross-border trade, sanctions, and competition matters.

Ana’s practice touches on a wide variety of industries including financial services, insurance, energy, transport, telecommunications, emerging technologies, and agriculture.

Ana’s core areas of practice include trade remedies, antidumping (AD), countervailing duty (CVD), and circumvention investigations before the US Department of Commerce and the US International Trade Commission. Ana also represents clients in appeals before the US Court of International Trade and the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Her experience extends to dispute settlement proceedings before the World Trade Organization, and Sections 301 and 232 investigations.

Ana routinely advises clients on the complexities of US, EU, UK, and UN economic sanctions programs. Her work spans sanctions programs targeting Russia, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Belarus, and Cuba, as well as thematic sanctions programs under human rights, drug trafficking, and terrorist authorities. She assists clients with risk assessments, internal compliance programs, internal investigations, voluntary self-disclosures, license applications, and delisting petitions.

Ana also guides clients in exporting items subject to US export controls under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

In addition to her US-focused work, Ana has extensive experience in EU competition law, state aid, international trade, and regulatory matters. She has represented European industry clients in antidumping and safeguard proceedings initiated by the European Commission. She has also provided advice on the internal trade of pharmaceuticals and chemicals, as well as on export restrictions under the EU Dual-Use Regulation.

Ana has advised clients on the implementation of state aid measures, the management of EU funds, and compliance with EU public procurement rules. She has represented clients before the European Commission and litigated before both the General Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Prior to joining Steptoe, Ana practiced at international law firms in Brussels and served as an assistant to a Member of the European Parliament.

She regularly consults for the World Bank on competition policy and pro-competitive reforms in developing economies. She is also a visiting professor in Universidad de Sevilla and frequent lecturer in Continuing Legal Education courses and conferences.