Cristina Brayton-Lewis advises clients on a variety of regulatory matters, including compliance with export controls and economic sanctions laws and regulations administered by the US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and the US State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC), including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

In particular, Cristina focuses on sanctions, including those maintained by the United States against Iran, Syria, Cuba, the Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, North Korea, Russia, Venezuela and Belarus. Cristina's sanctions expertise includes matters involving designated parties on OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List), including applications to unblock assets, as well as matters involving other restricted parties, including parties on OFAC's Sectoral Sanctions Identifications List (SSI List) and the BIS Entity List.

Cristina's practice includes compliance advice, including on classification and licensing requirements, internal investigations, and corporate due diligence and transactional matters.

In addition, Cristina advises clients regarding antiboycott requirements maintained by the Department of Commerce and the Department of the Treasury.

Beyond compliance advice, Cristina also assists with internal investigations of possible sanctions and export control violations, as well as assisting companies with any Voluntary Self-Disclosures (VSD) to the relevant government agencies.

Prior to joining White & Case, Cristina was a Special Assistant Attorney General for the District of Columbia, where she prosecuted criminal matters in Superior Court of DC.