Matt Bell helps his clients build or enhance their trade compliance programs through procedural enhancements, audits, and trainings that are properly benchmarked to leading practices. He specializes in international trade compliance including export controls, economic sanctions, antiboycott, import, customs, and similar global regulations.

Mr. Bell also has experience overseeing large and highly complex global investigations in some of the most challenging regions of the world. His specialization is honed through his experience as a senior in-house counsel for several organizations that committed significant resources to designing and implementing world-class trade compliance programs. As a result, he advises his clients from a unique perspective that balances compliance with these highly complex laws and regulations with the practical realities of implementing his advice in the day-to-day operations of the company.

Mr. Bell has extensive experience advising clients on the complex regulations related to encryption controls, de miminis analyses, second incorporation rule application, and sanctions regulations, especially as they apply to avoiding business in sanctioned jurisdictions or with sanctioned parties, as well as in wind-down of operations in sanctioned jurisdictions. His expertise spans across several industries including energy, Telecommunications, technology, and aerospace/defense, as well as for both U.S. and nonU.S. companies with extensive global operations.

Mr. Bell has made his career building best-in-class compliance programs under intense government scrutiny including extensive experience working with the U.S. Departments of Justice, Commerce, and Treasury as part of government investigations, civil and criminal settlements, and helping companies through the rigors of government-mandated audits and monitorships. Mr. Bell also advises on compliance with the export control regulations administered by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy, and Department of State.

Prior to FTI Consulting, Mr. Bell held senior legal and compliance positions in major multinational companies in the telecommunications and energy industries, including having served as a chief compliance officer, senior global anticorruption counsel, global trade compliance counsel, and regional compliance counsel for these organizations. Much of his work with these companies occurred during investigations related to and as a result of record-setting settlements with various U.S. government agencies related to FCPA, export controls, and sanctions violations. Mr. Bell started his career in consulting with international trade practices in two of the Big 4 consultancies.

Jeannette L. Chu is a senior associate (non-resident) with the Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Ms. Chu is the vice president for national security policy at the National Foreign Trade Council. She is leading a new program around advancing the interests of U.S. business in safeguarding U.S. national security and promoting global security through export controls, sanctions regimes, and policy initiatives. Prior to the NFTC, Ms. Chu was a senior managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where she led a multidisciplinary team in advising clients on national security regulatory compliance matters. Ms. Chu previously served as a senior adviser in the Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce. From 2005 through 2010, Ms. Chu served as the senior export control attaché at the U.S. embassy in Beijing, China, and was the first officer-in-charge of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service offices in Guangzhou and Beijing, serving from 1997 through 2005. Ms. Chu brings over 24 years of law enforcement and investigative experience. Ms. Chu received her BA in political science from American University.

Amir Fadavi is a senior director at K2 Integrity. Amir advises all types of clients—including FinTech companies, global financial institutions, and governments—on all manner of anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) issues, with a particular focus on complex matters related to economic sanctions imposed by key authorities, notably the United States, European Union, and United Kingdom. Amir helps clients design, establish, implement, and maintain strong and robust compliance frameworks. In order to improve effectiveness, Amir works with clients and leads sanctions gap analyses, risk assessments, policy and processes enhancements, and remediation efforts, as well as training and capacity building efforts.

Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Amir served as the global sanctions lead at Airwallex, where he led the company’s sanctions compliance program. In this role, Amir was responsible for redesigning, enhancing, and implementing policies, procedures, and controls as well as managing the company’s relationships with sanctions authorities in different jurisdictions. Amir was responsible for ensuring the ongoing effectiveness of the company’s sanctions program as well as conducting reviews to ensure Airwallex met all relevant regulatory requirements before entering a new jurisdiction.

Before his time at Airwallex, Amir was a member of the BNP Paribas Sanctions Compliance team. Working out of the bank’s Paris and New York offices, Amir evaluated the applicability of U.S. sanctions to the bank’s activities in its European markets and provided advice on permissibility of trade transactions with respect to U.S. export controls. He also provided guidance regarding EU restrictive measures, drafted groupwide procedures, and analyzed and assessed client risk.

Amir is also the founder of SanctionsExpert.com, a respected thought leader on sanctions and compliance. He has spoken at conferences such as ACI’s Conference on U.S. Economic Sanctions Enforcement and Compliance and has been quoted on sanctions and compliance issues on NPR’s Money Planet, BBC News, and Voice of America. He is a member of the NYC Bar Association and is on the Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists’ Editorial Task Force.

Adam Frey is a senior managing director at K2 Integrity in its U.S. Investigations and Disputes practice. Adam helps clients to mitigate risks associated with litigation, alleged misconduct, major investments, corporate hiring, and third-party relationships, as well as to ensure that their anticorruption and international financial sanctions policies and procedures are effective and up to date. His clients come from a range of sectors and industries—including financial services, law firms, insurance, healthcare, nonprofit organizations, and the government.

Adam also works closely with the firm’s Financial Crimes Compliance practice as a key member of several of K2 Integrity’s independent consultant teams. In that capacity, Adam works at the direction of federal, state, and/or international regulators to monitor and assess global financial institutions’ compliance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) enforcement actions and related consent orders. As part of K2 Integrity’s independent consultant teams, Adam helps lead K2 Integrity’s reviews of the institutions’ BSA/AML and/or sanctions compliance programs, policies, and procedures.

Adam’s work spans a spectrum of investigative matters, including internal investigations into potential corruption, fraud, or other malfeasance; risk and compliance assessments; and due diligence. He also manages litigation and arbitration support engagements, which frequently include a combination of asset searches, witness interviews, document review, data analytics, and public records investigative work.

Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Adam worked as a Senior Intelligence Analyst at the New York Police Department (NYPD) Intelligence Division, where he worked with senior detectives to manage the department’s counterterrorism investigations.

Prior to the NYPD, Adam was an associate at an international law firm based in Washington, D.C. His practice focused on complex litigation; white collar criminal defense, including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations; international sanctions; and advising U.S. corporations on the extraterritorial application of U.S. laws.

Adam also has extensive experience in Middle East foreign policy, having served as a professional staff member on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee responsible for Middle East and South Asia policy and also having worked as a policy analyst at a Middle East policy–based think tank while living in Melbourne, Australia. Adam began his career as a research assistant at a Middle East policy think tank in Washington, D.C.

Adam received a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and a B.A. from Duke University.