Strategic advisor to industry regarding trade and national security regulatory compliance, due diligence and risk management, including leading complex fraud and corporate investigations and other business critical issues. Businesses leaders turn to Ms. Torres for assistance in ascertaining business and operational risks and improving compliance. They also seek out her experience and guidance to address business challenges and bring a diverse point of view to crucial decision making requiring her years of experience in highly complex areas of the law, including governance, compliance, and regulatory perspective.
Ms. Torres works with her clients to identify and respond to a variety of supply-chain risks and issues related to due diligence, foreign investment, sustainability and ESG, export control, government contracting, and national security. She has strengths to help them create operational efficiencies, develop strategy, and keep their companies compliant and prosperous. She regularly guides clients – businesses in the hi-tech, defense contracting, telecommunications, aerospace, semiconductor, and satellite industries as well as highly regulated technology start-ups, blue-chip investment funds, and private equity groups – through a broad range of complex strategic and regulatory trade controls and national security matters, including developing effective strategies and conducting negotiations with U.S. regulatory agencies and, when needed, other regulators around the world.
Ms. Torres frequently lectures on export controls and international trade for organizations, universities, and government agencies in different countries, including in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Mexico, Thailand, France, Canada, and the United States. She is the author of several chapters on international trade in the WorldECR’s Export Compliance Manager’s Handbook, the Society of International Affairs Export Voluntary Disclosure Handbook, and other global publications.