Overview
(April 21, 2022, Washington, D.C.) — Steptoe partner Alexandra Baj has been named to DCA Live's 2022 list of Emerging Women Leaders in Private Practice. The list recognizes women in law in the Washington, DC region who are emerging as leaders within their firms and the broader legal community. The winners will be recognized at an event on Monday, May 16.
Baj is a deputy chair of 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.
Since 2014, DCA Live has honored hundreds of executives in law, finance, business, technology and real estate in the DC region who have demonstrated exceptional performance and made significant contributions to growth and innovation within their companies and firms.
About Steptoe
In more than 100 years of practice, Steptoe has earned an international reputation for vigorous representation of clients before governmental agencies, successful advocacy in litigation and arbitration, and creative and practical advice in structuring business transactions. Steptoe has more than 500 lawyers and other professional staff across offices in Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington. For more information, visit www.steptoe.com.
