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Alexis Early is a partner in King & Spalding’s International Trade Group, where she helps devise regulatory and policy solutions for clients. Alexis counsels companies, financial institutions, and individuals on economic sanctions, export controls, anti-money laundering, and CFIUS national security reviews of foreign investments. She represents clients in compliance and enforcement proceedings before the Treasury Department, State Department, Commerce Department, and Department of Homeland Security, and advocates for them on Capitol Hill.
Alexis counsels clients in the financial services and insurance, energy, aerospace and defense, IT/telecom, emerging technology, food and agriculture, shipping and logistics, and education/humanitarian sectors.
Alexis frequently conducts due diligence for M&A transactions and advises parties on whether to make CFIUS filings, how to navigate the CFIUS review process, and how to implement CFIUS mitigation. Often in parallel, she advises clients with classified operations on foreign ownership, control, and influence mitigation. She regularly counsels clients on licensing and compliance with the EAR, the ITAR, and OFAC sanctions regulations, including creating compliance programs and conducting trainings. Alexis also conducts internal investigations and assists clients in submitting disclosures of regulatory violations.
Alexis has advised foreign embassies, state-owned enterprises, and foreign sovereigns on their engagement with Capitol Hill and the federal government, and she counseled a pro-democracy opposition party in the Caucasus through its ultimately successful election campaigns. She has implemented strategic advocacy campaigns related to economic sanctions, international trade and multilateral trade agreements, defense cooperation, energy security, foreign assistance, and immigration policy.
In law school, Alexis was the founding editor-in-chief of the American University Business Law Review, the first comprehensive business law journal in Washington, DC. Twice selected as a Dean’s Fellow, she researched “forgotten constitutions” in American history and analyzed the effect of local administrative codes on LGBTQ families in Latin America. Prior to law school, she monitored multiple elections in Central America.
J.D., Washington College of Law
B.A., Wellesley College, with distinction
District of Columbia
New York
National LGBT Bar Association
August 3, 2023
K&S counsels Nikola Corporation on the sale of its Phoenix Hydrogen Hub project to Fortescue Future Industries
July 19, 2023
King & Spalding advises Nikola Corporation on its Sale of the Phoenix Hydrogen Hub to Fortescue Future Industries
June 8, 2023
King & Spalding Earns Top-Tier Rankings in Legal 500 United States 2023 Guide
August 14, 2023
Executive Order Establishes New Outbound Investment Screening Program
March 14, 2023
Bank Failures May Raise CFIUS Issues
March 7, 2023
U.S. Outbound Investment Review Regime Moving Forward
August 3, 2023
K&S counsels Nikola Corporation on the sale of its Phoenix Hydrogen Hub project to Fortescue Future Industries
July 19, 2023
King & Spalding advises Nikola Corporation on its Sale of the Phoenix Hydrogen Hub to Fortescue Future Industries
June 8, 2023
King & Spalding Earns Top-Tier Rankings in Legal 500 United States 2023 Guide
August 14, 2023
Executive Order Establishes New Outbound Investment Screening Program
March 14, 2023
Bank Failures May Raise CFIUS Issues
March 7, 2023
U.S. Outbound Investment Review Regime Moving Forward
August 3, 2023
K&S counsels Nikola Corporation on the sale of its Phoenix Hydrogen Hub project to Fortescue Future Industries
July 19, 2023
King & Spalding advises Nikola Corporation on its Sale of the Phoenix Hydrogen Hub to Fortescue Future Industries
June 8, 2023
King & Spalding Earns Top-Tier Rankings in Legal 500 United States 2023 Guide
J.D., Washington College of Law
B.A., Wellesley College, with distinction
District of Columbia
New York
National LGBT Bar Association