Chloe Barker

Chloe has over 15 years of experience advising multinational and UK businesses on UK and EU trade regulation, with a particular focus on financial and trade sanctions, export controls and customs.

Chloe provides compliance advice to clients across these risk areas in the context of commercial transactions, new business opportunities and internal and external investigations.

Chloe is in regular contact with sanctions and export control regulators and provides pragmatic advice to her clients on how these regulators interpret and enforce applicable regulations. Chloe has extensive experience of successfully obtaining licences on behalf of her clients from the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), the Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU) and competent EU sanctions and export control regulators.

Chloe supports clients subject to investigations by, and engaged in the voluntary disclosure process with, OFSI, the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI) and HMRC.

Chloe also advises on the development and implementation of effective compliance programmes, including conducting risk-based assessments of exposure to trade regulation, preparing sanctions and export control policies, procedures and awareness-raising programmes and auditing company compliance against industry best practice.

Chloe has been named as a Next Generation Partner for Trade, WTO Anti-dumping and Customs – Legal 500, 2024. She has completed secondments to an international bank, Bloomberg and a UK private bank and formerly worked in the European Parliament.