Member Profiles

Michael Hardgrove is a Partner at DLA Piper and located in the Boston office. His practice focuses on international tax. He has provided international consulting, structuring and intangible transaction services to numerous public and private companies with operations throughout the world. Michael serves his clients as international tax counsel, addressing their cross-border objectives for IP transfers, supply chain conversion, acquisition planning, repatriation and transfer pricing. He has been repeatedly recognized for his ability to integrate complex tax issues and operational constraints by Chambers USA and The Legal 500 United States.

After practicing for ten years throughout Europe, Asia and Africa, Albert returned to California in 1970. In addition to an extensive tax and business law practice, he was an Adjunct Law Professor at Southwestern University School of Law and at Whittier Law School, and a Lecturer at the law schools of the USC, Loyola, UC Davis and UCLA. He has authored more than 50 articles and five books and has served on many different Committees of the Bar.

CHARLES CROWLEY is a member of Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A., resident in the New York office. As a nationally-recognized authority on international trade and business law, Mr. Crowley has substantial experience leading and directing global trade and customs practices. He concentrates his practice on assisting multinational corporations with a wide variety of customs and international trade activities, including international supply chain security and management, intellectual property rights, import/export process management, antidumping and countervailing duty matters, unfair trade actions and anti-corruption compliance. In addition, Mr. Crowley provides counsel to clients on customs issues such as first sale and other valuation matters, duty refunds and tax/tariff reductions, foreign-trade zones and customs audits. He also advises clients on penalty matters and brings considerable insight to these issues as a former attorney with U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Regulations and Rulings and as a licensed U.S. Customs Broker in good standing since 1999.

Adrienne Braumiller is the founder of Braumiller Law Group PLLC and an innovative force in the international trade law arena. With more than 25 years of experience, she is widely recognized as a leading authority in Customs, import, export, foreign-trade zones, free trade agreements and ITAR compliance. Adrienne has been involved in every aspect of import and export compliance, from developing compliance programs to conducting audits and assessments, representing clients who are under investigation, preparing and submitting voluntary disclosures, preparing and filing classification requests and licenses, analyzing whether specific transactions should be pursued, providing tailored training on specific import/export topics, addressing penalty assessments, and serving as an expert witness in a number of trade cases. Over the last few years, both Adrienne and her firm have received numerous awards in recognition of her/ the firm’s leadership and its dedication to excellence. • The State Bar of Texas named Adrienne as the latest recipient of the prestigious Sarah T. Hughes Women Lawyers of Achievement Award for 2019. The award honors the accomplishments of women who have achieved outstanding recognition in their professional area and who, by doing so, have paved the way for success for other women attorneys. Only one-woman attorney is chosen each year for this award. Currently in the state of Texas there are 37,477 women attorneys. • Adrienne was recently selected to serve as the Co-Chair of the Customs Law Committee of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association; previously she served as the Vice Chair – Diversity. • IR Global selected Adrienne and her firm in 2018 to be its exclusive representative for Trade & Customs in Texas. IR Global, recognized by Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500, is the fastest growing professional service network in the world, dedicated to providing world class legal, accountancy and financial advice to companies and individuals across 155+ jurisdictions. • Chambers and Partners, www.chambersandpartners.com (Chambers) identifies and ranks the most outstanding law firms and lawyers in over 180 jurisdictions throughout the world. Adrienne has been named by Chambers and Partners as a Leader in her Field related to International Trade: Customs in both its U.S. and Global Guides every year from 2015 – 2020.

Bruce Leeds has decades of experience in international trade law and has successfully served his clients in diverse capacities, from classification and due diligence, to ITAR compliance and drawback. He has significant expertise with importing and exporting high tech products. Bruce has taught several different courses, and been a speaker, at various conferences related to international trade law for more than 30 years. At Boeing, Bruce served as the internal expert on import and export laws and regulations. His accomplishments included chairing the Global Committee established within the Office of Internal Governance to provide research, response, and guidance, on U.S. and non-U.S. changes to export-import laws, regulations, and procedures. Additionally, Bruce was appointed as a company representative to the Private Sector Consultative Group of the World Customs Organization in Brussels. Bruce has held a number of prestigious leadership positions over the years and continues to do so. He is an active member, and serves on the Board of Governors, for the American Association of Exporters & Importers. He is a Board Member, and past President, of the Foreign Trade Association, as well as Chair of Women in International Trade (Los Angeles). He is also a member of the International Compliance Professionals Association (ICPA), and the Society for International Affairs (SIA). Recognized for his wealth of knowledge, Bruce was appointed by the U.S. Treasury Secretary, and the Secretary of Homeland Security to serve for two terms on the Departmental Advisory Committee on the Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (COAC). He also served as the Chair of COAC in 2007 and 2008.