Eric Sandberg-Zakian represents clients in criminal cases, civil enforcement actions, and internal investigations involving national security and international trade.
Eric specializes in defending clients in parallel investigations by regulatory enforcement agencies and criminal prosecutors. He has extensive experience conducting high-stakes internal investigations and making voluntary disclosures to primary trade controls regulators in matters that could give rise to criminal prosecution.
Eric defends and counsels clients facing allegations that they have violated U.S. economic sanctions, export controls, and anticorruption laws, or have engaged in commercial bribery, fraud, or money laundering. He has worked with clients in the aerospace, defense, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, technology, not-for-profit, consulting, and financial sectors. He has handled investigations by the Treasury, Commerce, State, Defense, and Homeland Security Departments, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, the Department of Justice’s National Security and Criminal Divisions, and U.S. Attorney’s Offices across the country.
Eric also routinely helps companies enhance their compliance programs, conduct risk assessments, and navigate forward-looking compliance challenges, especially in the fields of economic sanctions and export controls.
Eric maintains an active pro bono practice, and has helped pro bono clients with matters before the Department of Veterans Affairs, Congress, the Supreme Court, and federal appellate and district courts. Most recently, he served as lead counsel in a high-profile wrongful conviction case, overturning a double-murder conviction and freeing an innocent man who was serving a life sentence in Kentucky state prison.
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