Scott Toussaint

Associate Attorney at Gibson Dunn

Speaker

Scott Toussaint is a senior associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm's International Trade Practice Group. He helps companies comply with the U.S. laws that govern international transactions, including economic sanctions, export controls, import restrictions and foreign investment reviews. Scott regularly advises clients on matters before the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). His clients are U.S. and foreign companies in energy, financial services, private equity, shipping, manufacturing and technology. He counsels them on sanctions compliance, licensing, compliance programs, investigations into potential violations, and the national security implications of mergers and acquisitions.

Scott's practice is informed by policy experience. Before law school, he spent seven years in Washington as press secretary and foreign policy advisor to a member of Congress, and he has also worked at a leading foreign policy think tank. He frequently writes and speaks on U.S. trade restrictions targeting jurisdictions such as Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and Syria, and he serves on Law360's International Trade Editorial Advisory Board. Scott is a graduate of Stanford Law School, where he was an editor of the Stanford Law Review. He also holds a Master of Science in international relations from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Cornell University.