Shahroo Yazdani
Of Counsel
Shahroo Yazdani has been a trade professional for nearly a decade, specializing in international import and export regulations. Shahroo started her career at Ferrari & Associates, P.C. in 2013. Before returning to Ferrari & Associates in 2021, Shahroo worked at Amazon and most recently to Amazon’s subsidiary Amazon Web Services (AWS), where she focused on import and export laws and international regulations.
With a passion for trade law, Shahroo specializes in all matters relating to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) including but not limited to: advising on OFAC and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) compliance, building out corporate compliance programs, assisting with civil forfeitures, OFAC whistleblowing, and de-listing procedures.
Shahroo is a Maryland native and attended the University of Maryland, College Park. She continued her education at American University’s Washington College of Law and Université Paris Nanterre where she specialized in European and International Trade Law while contributing to human rights work with Senator Lincoln Diaz Balart on Capitol Hill. After finishing law school, Shahroo worked on various human rights projects including at the World Bank as a consultant on the potential cultural rights implications of a Chinese mining project in Afghanistan.