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Artie McConnell, Jonathan Cardenas Present at ABA Business Law Section Fall Meeting 2025

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Updated HIPAA FAQs: Reaffirmation of the Obvious

The panel will discuss U.S. export enforcement priorities in emerging technologies such as high-performance computing chips and AI enablers, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, autonomous systems and more. The panel will address how exporters, logistics providers and financial institutions can improve compliance programs to detect and manage high-risk transactions, as well as the potential risks and benefits of self-disclosing violations.

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Reception to follow in-person discussion.

This webinar will provide 1.0 CLE credit hour.

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Melissa Mannino - Partner, BakerHostetler

Melissa Mannino, co-leader of the International Trade and National Security team and a Chambers ranked attorney, is an experienced export controls, foreign investment (CFIUS) and economic sanctions practitioner. Her broad based national security practice includes advising a range of companies, from start-ups to industry leading businesses, across a variety of sectors on compliance with the U.S. export control and economic sanctions laws and regulations and the CFIUS laws and regulations. She also represents clients through each stage of proceedings before the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Treasury and State on export control, CFIUS and sanctions matters.

Jenna Solari - Partner, BakerHostetler

Jenna Solari&nbsp;serves as the co-leader of the firm’s National Security Investigations and Litigation Task Force. She is known among her peers as a formidable adversary in the courtroom. She has tried and won cases of bank and wire fraud, money laundering, sanctions evasion, theft of trade secrets, embezzlement, drug and firearms trafficking, murder-for-hire, premeditated murder, arson and more. She focuses her practice on internal investigations, government matters and white-collar defense. She represents corporations, top executives and officers in investigations and litigation involving financial fraud, federal tax violations, securities fraud, intellectual property theft, trade sanctions violations, antitrust compliance, public corruption, money laundering, the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. As a national security practitioner, Jenna also counsels clients on supply chain resilience, economic security and indicators of malign foreign interest.

William Bookout - Special Agent, U.S. Department of Commerce

William Bookout began his federal career as a Special Agent with the BIS Atlanta Resident Office in 2016 and now serves as the Acting Special Agent in Charge. SA Bookout is assigned to the Atlanta Counterproliferation Strike Force, the FBI Counterintelligence Task Force, and assists the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Disruptive Technology Strike Force.&nbsp;SA Bookout was the DOJ Law Enforcement Officer of the Year in the Middle District of Florida and the recipient of the Department of Commerce Gold Medal in 2021, as well as the Office of Export Enforcement Honorary Special Agent of the Year in 2022. SA Bookout is a decorated veteran of the United States Army and retired as a Command Sergeant Major after 20 years of service.&nbsp;

Jon Gray - Acting Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Industry and Security Office of Export Enforcement (BIS OEE)

Jon Gray is the Acting Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the BIS OEE Miami Field Office and has been in law enforcement since 1997. Before joining the BIS OEE, he served twenty years as a Special Agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). While working with the ATF, Acting SAC Gray was primarily assigned to the Firearms Trafficking Group for Domestic and International Firearms Trafficking Regulations. In that capacity, he was often called upon to render expert opinions and testimony in firearms trafficking investigations. In his current role, Acting SAC Gray supervises, directs, and manages Miami Field Office investigations that impact the U.S. export enforcement program nationally and internationally.

Ariel Leinwand - Regional Export Control Officer (Special Agent), Bureau of Industry and Security Regional Export Control Officer (Special Agent)

Ariel Leinwand has spent over 20 years working on national security matters for the U.S. Government in the Department of Commerce, the Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Army to ensure our warfighters maintain a qualitative technological edge on the battlefield. He is currently serving as the first ever BIS representative on export controls at the American Institute in Taiwan and is responsible for ensuring effective export control and treaty compliance systems in Taiwan, Japan, and Korea. Prior to this assignment, Ari was BIS’s Export Enforcement Lead in Washington D.C. assigned to DOJ Task Force KleptoCapture. Ari also served during that time as a BIS Senior Policy Advisor with the Departments of State and Treasury, addressing export issues related to Russian, Belarusian, and Iranian aircraft. He also worked with Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to create critical KYC and KYCC guidance for worldwide financial institutions. During his time with the BIS Atlanta Resident Office, Ari led many of BIS’s most successful and impactful cases as a field agent and as the Resident Agent in Charge prior to his promotion to Special Agent in Charge of the Miami Field Office.&nbsp;

For questions, please contact&nbsp;<a href="mailto:internationalevents@bakerlaw.com">internationalevents@bakerlaw.com</a>.

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