Lal Bilgili is an Associate with the firm. Her practice focuses on international trade, economic sanctions, export controls, customs, CFIUS and national security, supply chain and logistics matters, and corporate trade compliance. She advises U.S. and multinational companies across a range of industries, including retail and apparel, consumer products, medical devices, renewable energy, logistics, technology, and financial services.

Her work encompasses a broad range of international trade and regulatory matters, including the application of U.S. economic sanctions and export controls, cross-border transactions involving sanctioned jurisdictions and restricted parties, OFAC licensing matters, and foreign ownership and national security considerations. She also assists clients with developing and implementing trade compliance programs.

In addition, Lal has assisted multinational companies with complex sanctions and regulatory issues involving foreign affiliates, banking and payment restrictions, government payments and refunds, and other cross-border transactions. Her customs practice includes advising clients on country of origin, tariff classification, customs valuation, duty preference programs, Section 301 tariffs, importer obligations, CBP inquiries and enforcement matters, and other import compliance issues.

As part of her compliance practice, she has conducted comprehensive trade compliance audits, internal reviews, and regulatory due diligence. These engagements have involved customs, sanctions, export controls, supply chain controls, internal procedures, training, recordkeeping, and responses to government inquiries. Her work also includes supplier and manufacturer due diligence, forced labor and UFLPA-related risk, and broader supply chain compliance.

Before joining the firm as an Associate, Lal worked as a summer legal intern with the firm and with White & Case LLP in its London and Istanbul offices, where she assisted with multijurisdictional M&A and commercial transactions. She also previously worked as a legal intern at Credit Europe Bank in Moscow, Russia.

A graduate of the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Lal served as a Senior Editor of the Southern California Law Review. She also received her B.A. in Political Science and Russian from the University of Southern California and her M.A. in Human Rights from University College London. Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, she speaks Turkish, English, French, and Russian.