Thomas Eamon
Slattery
- Position
- Partner
- Office
- New Orleans
Thomas Slattery is a partner in the Litigation Practice Group. He focuses on international trade and compliance matters.
A member of the firm’s corporate compliance and white collar defense team, Tom assists companies in a wide range of compliance matters. He helps companies in a variety of industries — including aviation, financial services, mining, and manufacturing — manage their trade and sanctions policies and procedures, export controls, third-party risks, government enforcement, and related risk assessments and internal corporate investigations.
Tom represents clients in global trade matters, including international sanctions administered by the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Export Administration Regulations administered by the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). He is experienced in antidumping/countervailing duties (AD/CVD), prior and voluntary self-disclosures, tariff and Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) classifications, relief from customs penalties, and licensing at both OFAC and BIS.
Tom also assists public and privately owned companies across a range of governance matters, including merger litigation, special litigation committees examining shareholders’ derivative claims, and defense against federal Ponzi receivers’ claims of third-party liability.
In 2018, he was the lead associate on a team that convinced the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) to remove two products from the final list of Section 301 tariffs against China — altogether the USTR received more than 6,000 comments from the public on the tariffs, but only eliminated 286 products from its initial list of 6,031.
Prior to joining Jones Walker, Tom was an economic development legal fellow with the International Senior Lawyers Project in New York, where he worked with organizations and governments in Asia, Africa, and Central America, including the East African Court of Justice and the Malawi Anti-Corruption Bureau.