Claire Huitt is an associate in the Washington D.C. office and works with the firm's Regulation, Investigations, Securities, and Compliance (RISC) and Information Governance, Privacy and Cybersecurity (IGPC) teams.

Regulation, Investigations, Securities, and Compliance (RISC) 

Within the RISC group, Claire's practice focuses on national security and international trade issues including US economic sanctions, export controls (EAR & ITAR), Customs matters and other trade remedies, and foreign investment matters involving the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Claire helps advise clients across the lifespan of these types of issues starting from due diligence to compliance counseling, licensing, disclosures, filings, and responding to government investigations and audits.

In her sanctions practice, Claire helps counsel clients on compliance and enforcement risk under the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control's (OFAC's) various sanctions programs, including and in particular, OFAC's Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions and Ukraine-/Russia-Related sanctions. Claire also helps clients evaluate and navigate, where needed, OFAC licensing or disclosure. In her export controls practice, Claire helps clients develop and implement robust export controls programs and tackle nuanced regulatory issues such as exemptions and licensing. Claire's Customs work includes helping clients navigate complex issues such as classification, valuation, origin determination, preference programs, quotas, forced labor and Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) compliance, and other import restrictions. Claire also helps counsel clients on other US trade remedies including tariff regimes, such as Section 201 and 301 tariffs, and antidumping and countervailing duties. In her CFIUS practice, Claire assists foreign and domestic companies with the CFIUS review process and has experience working with clients and the Committee through both the Declarations and Voluntary Notice processes.

Information Governance, Privacy and Cybersecurity (IGPC)

Within the IGPC group, Claire helps advise clients on a variety of information governance, eDiscovery, data privacy, and cybersecurity issues. In her information governance practice, Claire helps advise clients on topics such as information management, records retention, data migration and archiving, defensible data disposition, and mobile device management. In her eDiscovery practice, Claire helps advise clients both on tactical eDiscovery issues in particular cases as well as broader eDiscovery strategies. For example, Claire assists clients with formulating and actioning strategies for defensible and efficient preservation, identification, collection, review, and production of electronically stored information. In her data privacy practice Claire helps advise clients on topics such as cross-border data transfers, data localization, and data anonymization and pseudonymization. Finally, in her cybersecurity practice, Claire helps clients efficiently and defensibly respond to data security incidents. This entails quickly identifying data subjects impacted and the types of personal information impacted, advising clients about the scope of the incident and the company's obligations to notify the appropriate authorities and the people affected by the breach, and managing inquiries from and communications with impacted companies and individuals in relation to the breach.