Jason Wilcox's practice focuses on assisting clients with understanding and complying with complex legal regimes governing the international trade of goods, services, software and technology and cross-border investment. He represents leading companies in software/SaaS, digital currency/blockchain, fintech, medtech, proptech, and climate tech, financial services, real estate, life sciences, healthcare, consumer and retail, energy, and industrials, offering pragmatic, risk-tailored advice that considers their unique business models, value chains, and commercial objectives.
Mr. Wilcox provides transactional and compliance counseling on international trade and national security regulatory issues to clients in IPOs, acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, and various financing arrangements. In this respect, he assesses potential liability and mitigates future risks through conducting due diligence, drafting and negotiating contractual provisions, making all necessary filings with U.S. government authorities, and implementing compliance and auditing protocols.
Mr. Wilcox also counsels clients in advisory and enforcement matters involving export controls, economic sanctions, anti‐boycott, anti‐corruption, foreign direct investment, and customs laws and regulations. In addition to providing general compliance advice, he obtains licensing and other approvals, performs pre-and post-closing due diligence, formulates and reviews compliance policies and procedures, leads compliance training, conducts internal audits and investigations, prepares petitions and voluntary disclosures, and represents clients in administrative and enforcement proceedings.
In addition to his practice, Mr. Wilcox is involved in various initiatives aimed at advancing educational opportunities in his local community. Mr. Wilcox spearheads the firm's mentorship of high school students participating in the DC Street Law Program, which concentrates on providing students with necessary skills to become effective problem-solvers through their knowledge of legal principles. In recognition of this participation, the firm received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. Mr. Wilcox has also been appointed to serve on the City of Gaithersburg, MD Educational Enrichment Committee.
Mr. Wilcox was the firm's 2019 representative member for the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Fellows Program and was an inaugural recipient of the Baker Botts Excellence in Diversity and Community Engagement Award, presented to three lawyers committed to promoting diversity in the firm and in their communities.
