Co-chair of the International Trade Compliance Practice Group, Tahlia is trusted by Fortune 50 multinationals, leading universities, international law firms, emerging companies, and small businesses to provide prompt, practical, effective guidance and thought leadership on U.S. foreign investment regulations (CFIUS), trade sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC), and U.S. export controls under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), and to defend companies faced with government enforcement actions in these areas.
Lauded by her clients for responsiveness, practicality, and a level of care and service that is “terrifyingly good,” Tahlia has assisted clients in sectors including aerospace, banking, defense, insurance, logistics, venture capital, legal services, electronics, optics, communications, and education with a wide variety of trade compliance issues, large and small. Clients call Tahlia an “excellent practitioners, who provides meaningful advice”, “highly skilled, careful and thorough”, “keenly aware of the commercial ramifications” of the rules, and “able to explain complex ideas in a concise and clear fashion.”
Tahlia is a popular speaker at public conferences and in-house events from Tel Aviv to London to San Francisco, teaches international trade compliance at the University of Connecticut School of Law, and is often asked to train U.S. and international business leaders and legal and compliance personnel on export and trade sanctions controls and compliance procedures.
In addition to her trade controls practice, Tahlia is an accomplished federal civil litigator. Her litigation matters have included a successful defense of a former foreign president against claims that he violated international law; representation of a museum in a dispute over Incan artifacts claimed by a Latin American nation; successful pro bono representation of prisoners in civil rights matters involving religious liberty and freedom from involuntary medication; suits against government officials for authorizing torture and unconstitutional military detention without charge; successful defense of title to one of Van Gogh’s most famous paintings against a claim that Russia unlawfully expropriated it; and defense of a foreign sovereign nation in a dispute over title to medieval artifacts.
Tahlia earned her J.D. from the Yale Law School and served as law clerk to Judge Robert N. Chatigny and Judge Mark R. Kravitz, both of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. Before becoming a lawyer, Tahlia obtained a bachelor’s degree in physics and chemistry, taught English at the Lauder Javne community school in Budapest, performed research in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, and studied French, German, and Hungarian.
Updated Sep 2024
