Richard S. Elliott is international trade counsel, based in the firm's Washington, D.C., office. His practice consists of regulatory and advisory projects, internal investigations and enforcement matters involving international trade, investment and finance matters. His areas of practice include export controls and economic sanctions, Exon-Florio reviews, defense industrial security matters, antiboycott and antibribery restrictions, and international dispute resolution. He has handled Exon-Florio reviews for two decades, and has close to three decades of experience working with export control and sanctions matters. He regularly manages international internal investigations, particularly in connection with alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and U.S. sanctions laws. In addition to a number of published articles and panel presentations, he has served as advisor to several business groups trying to achieve legal and policy changes involving international trade, investment and finance issues.

From September 1981 to August 1984, Mr. Elliott served as an attorney-adviser in the U.S. State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser. Previously, he participated in a joint degree program between Columbia Law School and Princeton University. At Columbia, he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a member of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law and the Columbia Society of International Law; at Princeton, he concentrated in International Relations at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. As an undergrad at Trinity College, Mr. Elliott was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, earned honors in political science and received a number of prizes in economics and political science.