Catherine Cayce

Catherine Cayce is Special Counsel at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP in Washington, DC and focuses on international trade compliance. She advises clients on US export regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations, International Traffic in Arms Regulations, and Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctions rules. Catherine helps companies build, implement, and maintain practical export-control programs. Her work also includes internal investigations, voluntary disclosures, government filings, and day-to-day counseling on export compliance and sanctions questions.

Catherine earned a J.D. from William & Mary Law School and a B.A. from Georgetown University. Her legal education supports a practice requiring careful interpretation of federal trade controls, sanctions requirements, licensing issues, and corporate compliance duties. This foundation helps her analyze regulatory risks, structure compliance procedures, and explain complex government rules to business teams. Her work often requires connecting legal requirements with operational processes, transactions, investigations, and international business activity.

Catherine has more than 15 years of law-firm and in-house counsel experience. Before returning to private practice, she served as senior counsel for international trade compliance at several global companies. She led teams responsible for global trade-compliance policy development, training, communications, investigations, disclosures, and export-compliance due diligence in mergers and acquisitions. Her current representations include companies in aviation, industrial manufacturing, technology solutions, and other sectors facing multi-jurisdictional export-control and sanctions issues.

Catherine Cayce is admitted in the District of Columbia and Virginia. Her combination of in-house and law-firm experience gives her a practical perspective on how export-control rules operate inside global businesses. She helps clients respond to investigations, prepare disclosures, develop compliance programs, conduct transaction due diligence, and address complex sanctions questions. Her practice supports companies that need clear processes for managing regulated exports and international activity while meeting evolving federal trade-compliance requirements.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
• Member, District of Columbia Bar
• Member, Virginia State Bar

Licensed State

• District of Columbia
• Virginia

Education

• William & Mary Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Georgetown University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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