About Hal Eren

Hal Eren is the founding partner of the firm and the lead attorney in the Eren Law Firm’s widely respected corporate and economic sanctions practice. He has advised on many transactions, successfully resolved many sanctions disputes, settled enforcement actions, and obtained licenses and interpretations that are favorable to his clients. He possesses a unique wealth of knowledge and experience which he brings to each case he works on. With a practical and detail-oriented approach, Mr. Eren provides clients with unparalleled legal guidance and advice, always drawing on the unique attributes of each client and their case.

Mr. Eren advises and represents clients with respect to corporate matters, economic sanctions, export controls, anti-money laundering laws, laws governing business integrity, and related dispute resolution. Due to his eight years at the U.S. Treasury, Mr. Eren has expertise in handling U.S. economic sanctions and U.S. anti-money laundering laws imposed on U.S. and non-U.S. banks, financial services companies, marine insurers, and ship owners. He advises clients on compliance, defends clients in enforcement actions, and manages dispute resolution. Mr. Eren represents clients in court and before the following entities: tribunals dealing with the arbitration of international investor-state disputes such as the World Bank’s ICSID; the U.S. Treasury, State, Justice, and Commerce Departments; U.S. federal banking regulators; the New York State Department of Financial Services and other state banking regulators; and U.S. federal prosecutors.

From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Eren was a lawyer at the Washington office of Clifford Chance, where he advised and represented clients, lawyers of the firm, and the firm itself on economic sanctions and other U.S. financial and international trade regulatory matters. From 1992 to 2000, Mr. Eren served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)—the agency of the U.S. Government responsible for administering U.S. economic sanctions. When he left OFAC, Mr. Eren held the title of Senior Sanctions Advisor.

Languages Spoken

• English (native)
• French
• Spanish
• Turkish