Kimberly M. Myers

Senior Counsel
Email kmyers@akingump.com
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: Washington, D.C.
t: +1 202.887.4423
f: +1 202.887.4288

Key Experience

Represents and advocates for clients under government monitorships arising from the settlement of export control and sanctions related violations.
Develops and implements innovative and semi-automated compliance solutions for clients across a range of industries and geographies.
Helps high tech clients, including clients in the semiconductor industry, navigate complex and rapidly evolving regulations and authorization requirements; helps obtain, and manage compliance with, high-value authorizations issued by the U.S. government.
Builds and enhances international trade compliance programs for multinational corporations, and advises on compliance with U.S. trade regulations.
Counsels clients on environment, social and governance (ESG) matters.

Practice

Kimberly Myers works with U.S. and multinational companies in diverse industries, helping them analyze and develop compliance solutions and understand their obligations under U.S. international trade law. Kimberly often works with clients that are operating under complex multiyear settlement agreements with a U.S. government-appointed monitor in place. In these engagements, Kimberly leads compliance enhancement projects, internal investigations and interfaces with the government monitor team to advocate for her clients. In addition, Kimberly works with clients in high-tech industries that are facing increased regulation and a need to develop international trade compliance programs for emerging technologies.

Clients appreciate Kimberly’s deep understanding of the complex regulatory landscape and ability to distill complex requirements and competing interests into linear process-driven solutions.

The compliance solutions Kimberly helps clients develop are more than a mere paper overlay to existing business processes. She works closely with business professionals to understand the existing business framework and to design compliance procedures that integrate into current business processes. These solutions, which are legally accurate, efficient, tailored and—where possible—automated, help businesses operate in compliance with U.S. legal obligations with limited overlay of cumbersome paper-based compliance tools.

Kimberly represents clients before the Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC), the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). Kimberly also assists clients in developing strategic approaches to the use of controlled technologies, including helping companies to understand the reach of U.S. law over that technology and to develop effective classification and licensing processes that facilitate their ability to use such technology.

Kimberly is also committed to providing pro bono services with a focus on clients that operate at the intersection of human rights and corporate social responsibility. In this context, she has advised pro bono clients on the types of labor exploitation prevalent in Southeast Asia and the completeness and relevance of rule of law training materials related to human and wildlife trafficking. Additionally, Kimberly has implemented systems for monitoring and evaluating pro bono clients’ work in Liberia, Tanzania and Kenya.

Before entering private practice, Kimberly was a graduate fellow in the National Veteran’s Legal Services program and a judicial intern for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Prior to entering the legal field, Kimberly worked in education, where she honed her ability to develop visually interesting and easily digestible teaching materials. These skills come through in her interactions with clients and in the work product she delivers.

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