Maryanne W. Kamau

MARYANNE KAMAU advises clients on international trade and EU law with a primary focus on market access and compliance risks arising from supply chain rules, sanctions and export controls, customs rules, and investment screening.

Maryanne advises on issues at the intersection of trade, sustainability, economic security and regulatory compliance in the context of cross-border transactions, commercial arrangements, and disputes.  This includes: 

• EU supply-chain compliance regimes that condition market access, including the EU Batteries Regulation, EU Forced Labour Regulation, Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), EU Deforestation Regulation and related due diligence, traceability, and sourcing requirements.
• Sanctions and trade controls, including Russia-related sanctions, advising on the scope and application of restrictive measures and sanctions issues arising in transactions and commercial arrangements.
• Customs and border-related issues, including how customs requirements interact with other EU regulatory obligations affecting imports into and exports from the EU.
• Investment screening and subsidy controls reviews in the context of cross-border transactions.
• Trade-related disputes, including commercial disputes involving sanctions and export controls and international trade disputes before the World Trade Organization (WTO). 
• Sector-specific emissions regulation, including automotive emissions rules and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) mandates.

Maryanne gained first-hand experience in EU policy and regulatory engagement during a client secondment to the EU public policy team of a multinational technology company.

Maryanne regularly speaks at international conferences and has published on EU and international trade law in academic journals and books.

Investment screening, trade controls, and subsidy control transactional experience, including advising:

• Marathon Asset Management, a leading global credit manager, on the FDI aspects of its up to US$ 1.6 billion sale to CVC, a leading private markets investment firm.
• PayRange in the foreign direct investment screening aspects of its acquisition of KioSoft Technologies.
• Ridgeview Partners in the foreign direct investment screening aspects of its growth investment in Radiant Logic.
• Siris Capital Group in the foreign direct investment screening aspects of its US$591 million Sale of Fiery.
• International Game Technology PLC on the ex-US FDI aspects of the spinoff of its Global Gaming and PlayDigital businesses in a deal valued at approximately US$6.2 billion.
• ShoreView Industries in its sale of portfolio company Avidity Science.
• Confluence Technologies, Inc. in its US$500 million acquisition of Investment Metrics, a major provider of investment data, performance, analytics, and research software solutions.
• KKR on its majority acquisition of Biosynth Carbosynth, a Swiss life sciences reagents and custom synthesis and manufacturing services company.
• nThrive, Inc., a leading healthcare revenue cycle management software-as-a-service platform backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., in its US$1.74 billion acquisition of TransUnion Healthcare from TransUnion.

International and trade-related dispute settlement experience, including advising:

• Airbus, standing behind the European Union in the landmark Boeing-Airbus “large civil aircraft” subsidy disputes, which are the biggest and longest-running dispute in World Trade Organization history.
• The African Union before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in an advisory proceeding concerning climate change and its effects on the marine environment.

• International Bar Association (African Regional Forum and International Trade and Customs Law Committee)