Good Practice

The big picture

Issue 23
May 2022

Author
John Pisa-Relli
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John Pisa-Relli currently serves as consulting legal counsel to a multinational aerospace and defense company headquartered in the United States, where he advises on a wide range of trade compliance matters. For the previous ten years, he directed the internal trade compliance program for Accenture, the world’s largest business consulting firm. Prior to joining Accenture, John served in the US federal government, practiced law privately, and served as in-house director of trade compliance with a multinational aerospace and defense group headquartered in Europe. Connect with John on LinkedIn..

How context matters for effective compliance

In the beginning...

I started my legal career 30 years ago as a compliance officer in the US Commerce Department’s Office of Antiboycott Compliance, which was (unfairly in my opinion) considered something of a backwater, in what was then known as the Bureau of Export Administration. So OAC was part of BXA, which ultimately became BIS, where it still resides (I know I don’t even need to explain these acronyms to my august readers). Anyway, backw...

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