Export Controls and Sanctions Advisors LLC
Creating practical solutions for complicated export controls and sanctions issues
Export Controls and Sanctions Advisors LLC
Creating practical solutions for complicated export controls and sanctions issues
Our History
Export Controls and Sanctions Advisors, LLC (“ECS Advisors”) was founded in 2023 by former officials from the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), U.S. Department of Commerce, and U.S. Department of Defense, who served as senior U.S. diplomats, in regulatory, policy, enforcement, and intelligence agencies, and possessing, in the aggregate, decades of experience working with and for every agency in the U.S. Government, and with more than 70 foreign governments around the world.
Our Firm
Our firm employs the largest number of former government regulatory and export control officials in the world with more than 200 years of international experience in export controls and sanctions, including:
- An extensive network among, and continual contact with, U.S. and EU government regulators and enforcement authorities.
- Continual monitoring of and review of all dual-use regulatory commodity control changes.
- Participation in all BIS Regulatory and Policy Technical Advisory Committee open sessions.
Our Experience
Our staff are senior international professionals with an average of 25 years of experience in a variety of roles, including as:
- Regulatory Officials
- Senior U.S. Diplomats
- Prominent Attorneys
- Federal Law Enforcement Officers
- Intelligence and Counterintelligence Officers
- Regulatory, Enforcement, and Policy Consultants
- Former Export Control Officers
- Commercial Bankers
Our Vision
At ECS Advisors, our vision is to be the leading boutique consulting firm for providing efficient, real-world, practical risk and threat-based advisory services related to compliance with multilateral export controls and sanctions.
Our staff is dedicated to providing expert advising and solutions for your global trade compliance needs with a holistic approach at an affordable price.
Our Approach
Our approach to advising clients is to combine decades of global trade experience from multiple disciplines with a risk, threat, and legal-based perspectives to offer real-world, practical, and holistic approach to facilitating secure global trade, helping to protect a company from violations, and ensuring the safeguarding of critical program information.
- This type of approach allows clients to:
- easily understand regulations and compliance risks;
- efficiently comply with applicable regulations;
- mitigate risks to a company’s reputation and bottom line; protect its products and services from illicit acquisition; and
- safeguard intellectual property.
Market Differentiators
- ECS Advisors is exclusively focused on matters surrounding export controls and sanctions.
- ECS Advisors’ leadership are founders of the network of International Sanctions and Export Control Societies, a first-of-its kind effort to bring together industry, government, and other stakeholders to build a compliance ecosystem around export controls and sanctions.
- ECS Advisors maintains close contacts in multiple regulatory and enforcement agencies, trade associations, nonprofits, and 1000s of companies in global industry.
- ECS Advisors employs the largest number of former export controls and sanctions regulatory and enforcement officials in industry.
- ECS Advisors is the only firm in industry capable of providing a truly holistic approach using perspectives from law enforcement, intelligence, compliance, legal, and inhouse practitioner disciplines.
- ECS Advisors offers the most competitive hourly rates in industry for the level of practical experience per consultant.
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