Kaveh N. Miremadi
Associate
miremadi@ferrari-legal.com
1455 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20004
Telephone: 202-280-6370
Mr. Miremadi’s main areas of practice are assisting clients to comply with and address issues related to U.S. trade sanctions, government investigations and white collar criminal defense.
Mr. Miremadi works extensively with clients on matters administered by the U.S. Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”). In this capacity he works on voluntary self disclosures, compliance, and licensing on behalf of individual and corporate clients. He manages a variety of complex factors to ensure the best possible outcome for his clients. He also represents individuals and entities seeking to either unblock frozen assets or petition OFAC to be removed from the SDN list. His clients are located domestically and across the globe.
Mr. Miremadi’s experience with OFAC has also given him broad exposure to legal and policy issues related to national and homeland security, bank secrecy and money laundering, and international law enforcement and narcotics trafficking. Mr. Miremadi’s work has also provided him experience with the Alien Tort Statute, Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and the Foreign Tort Claims Act.
Mr. Miremadi often advises clients on issues arising under federal criminal statutes and regulations governing the financial sector and international trade. He also has broad experience with other alleged violations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, unlicensed money transmitting businesses and many other provisions of federal and white collar criminal law. Mr. Miremadi has a profound respect for and understanding of the rights of an accused and the criminal justice system.
Mr. Miremadi received his B.A with honors in 2005 from the University of California Santa Barbara. He received his J.D. cum laude in 2010 from American University, Washington College of Law. While in school he founded the American University Business Law Review, Washington DC’s first law review dedicated to business law. Mr. Miremadi was a student attorney with the Community and Economic Development Law Clinic and served the Business Law Review as its Executive Articles Editor. He clerked for the White Collar Crime Policy Counsel of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, interned with the Superior Court of California in Orange County, conducted numerous investigations as his law school’s Honor Code Prosecutor, and was elected Senate President pro tempore of the Student Bar Association.
Mr. Miremadi is a member of the Virginia State Bar, the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section, the Virginia Bar Association Criminal Law Section, and is a certified court appointed attorney in the Commonwealth of Virginia.