Kirsten Hoffstedt Keefe

Practices

• International Trade & Customs

Professional Experience

Kirsten is an associate in the International Trade & Customs practice group. She focuses in the following areas:

• Representing clients in enforcement actions before BIS, DDTC, OFAC, Customs;
• Developing import and export compliance programs for multinational corporations;
• Developing internal import and export audits;
• Counseling clients on trade regulatory requirements affecting the movement of technology and services;
• Monitoring legislative activity related to U.S. sanctions, export controls and anti-dumping and countervailing duties; and
• Training lawyers and corporate personnel on compliance with export regulations, import regulations, and licensing requirements.

Kirsten is also engaged in many firmwide activities, including participation in the Diversity & Inclusion Initiative and Women's Initiative.

During her academic career, Kirsten served as a law clerk with a French firm in Paris that focused on corporate transactional work and mergers and acquisitions. She was also awarded a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship for a year of study at the Sorbonne.

Prior to attending law school, Kirsten worked for an agency of the Korean government in Chicago to facilitate trade and foreign direct investment between Midwestern companies and Korea. She also served as a housing advocate in Baltimore, Maryland, through a non-profit organization designed to promote home ownership in the inner city.

Kirsten is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and the state of Maryland.

Education

• Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2003
• Luther College, B.A., 1995, summa cum laude

• French