Dorsey Adds Charles Shotwell to National Security Group in Seattle
29 July 2015 - 5:15AM
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International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today
that it has added Charles Shotwell as a Senior Attorney to its
National Security Group to augment the Firm’s capacity to advise
clients on U.S. export control and embargo matters.
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Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today
that it has added Charles Shotwell as a Senior Attorney to its
National Security Group to augment the Firm's capacity to advise
clients on U.S. export control and embargo matters. (Photo: Dorsey
& Whitney LLP)
From 2009-2012, Mr. Shotwell served as the Director of Defense
Trade Controls Policy at the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls
(DDTC), U.S. Department of State, and was one of the principal
initial contributors to the Obama Administration’s Export Control
Reform (ECR) initiative to revise the U.S. Munitions List (USML).
Previous to that, Mr. Shotwell was a Senior Foreign Affairs Advisor
in the U.S. Department of Defense. He is also a retired career U.S.
Air Force officer and Staff Judge Advocate who held many key
national security positions, including service on the staff of the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He has been a negotiator of
international defense cooperation agreements and has reviewed
Foreign Military Sales (FMS) agreements with U.S. allies. He also
taught at the U.S. Air Force Academy and published/lectured at the
National Defense University. Prior to joining Dorsey & Whitney,
Mr. Shotwell was a private export control consultant.
Nelson Dong, head of Dorsey’s National Security Group, said, “We
are absolutely thrilled to have Chuck Shotwell joining our Firm. He
will bring to our clients many years of experience and knowledge
about defense trade issues under the International Traffic in Arms
Regulations (ITAR), especially as those rules have been so sharply
revised through the recent ECR changes. Chuck will add particular
depth and perspective to our ability to advise technology,
aerospace and defense companies, universities and research
institutes about technology transfer, export licensing, brokering
and commodity jurisdictions under the ITAR and the transition under
ECR of many items to the jurisdiction of the Department of
Commerce.”
Mr. Shotwell said, “I am very pleased to be joining Nelson Dong,
Larry Ward and their team in the premier national security practice
on the West Coast so I can continue my work in export control law
and defense trade. Having personally led the ECR effort from within
the State Department for three years, it is just a great
opportunity for me now to advise industry on how to gain the most
benefit from those ECR changes. I believe that ECR will continue to
have particularly profound effects across the aerospace, aviation,
marine and electronics industries for years to come as global
companies adjust to these very different U.S. export control
rules.”
Mr. Shotwell is a graduate of the University of Puget Sound and
Seattle University Law School. He holds an LL.M. in international
law from the American University Law School and was a National
Defense Fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts
University.
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