Anna Vizniak

Anna Vizniak is a business attorney in Holland & Knight's New York office and a member of the International Trade Group. Ms. Vizniak focuses her practice on a broad range of international trade regulatory and transactional matters, including economic sanctions and export controls, foreign direct investment and customs.

Ms. Vizniak advises multinational companies on U.S. sanctions programs administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), as well as export control regulations administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). Her work includes guidance on sanctions and export control-related aspects of doing business in high-risk jurisdictions, assistance throughout enforcement actions and general compliance advice.

Ms. Vizniak represents clients before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), including conducting preliminary risk assessments, advising on regulatory aspects of inbound and outbound investments, drafting and managing CFIUS filings and addressing foreign direct investment considerations in transactional documents.

Ms. Vizniak also counsels clients on import regulations administered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), including tariff mitigation strategies, classification of goods, valuation, country of origin determinations and preferential duty treatment. Ms. Vizniak represents clients subject to CBP actions or investigations.

In addition, Ms. Vizniak's practice includes advising clients on corporate jet transactions and structuring corporate aircraft operations to ensure compliance with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Vizniak was a business attorney in the Kyiv office of an international law firm in Ukraine, where she advised clients on various aspects of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate restructurings and market entry and expansion strategies.