Luke P. Engan

Expertise Luke Advises Experience Highlights Career History

Partner

International Trade & Customs

Expertise

Luke has in-depth knowledge of the international economic and legal landscape. His range of experience in global trade, antitrust, and complex project leadership encompasses private and public-sector roles. In international trade, Luke has deep expertise in tariffs, customs, export controls, and foreign trade zone programs. Luke devotes collaborative attention and a keen analytical eye to clients’ needs, including litigation risk mitigation, cross-functional legal operations management, regulatory compliance, and antitrust and international trade strategy.

His experience at the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and Department of Commerce has honed his judgment of the regulatory perspectives that affect business. Luke’s private practice at White & Case and Ropes & Gray developed his capabilities in managing risk in high-stakes litigation and counselling scenarios. He has been trusted with cross-functional team leadership, creation of novel processes under pressure, and efficient service delivery when results matter.

Luke brings careful judgment and passion for sound international economic policy to his matters so that business can thrive and evolve in a fast-changing world. He became a lawyer because of his natural tendency toward passionate advocacy for his clients. Luke is a native to change, whether assisting those who create or respond to disruptive technologies.

Luke Advises

  • Enterprises engaged in international trade and market expansion
  • Parties to reportable M&A transactions
  • Investors, private equity funds, and venture capital firms conducting transaction diligence

Experience Highlights

  • Managed a federal international trade exclusion program impacting millions of dollars in tariff liability, ensuring adherence to scope, deadlines, and quality standards. Oversaw the preparation of thousands of memoranda supporting administrative recommendations.
  • Prepared key expert witness in a $425 million arbitration, leading to a tribunal decision rejecting all claims and awarding the client $5 million in legal costs in a major international construction dispute.
  • Minimised antitrust compliance burdens by securing early terminations through targeted investigator outreach.
  • Advised a private equity fund to halt a prospective acquisition the same day after identifying high antitrust risk, avoiding $2 million in legal costs and safeguarding $500 million in investment capital.
  • Directed interagency coordination, regulatory decision-making, and litigation support to minimise legal exposure, facilitate foreign trade zone access, and address programmatic vulnerabilities.
  • Led time-pressured document review projects in pursuit of objectives, including internal compliance review, litigation defence, and transaction closing, building a temporary operations centre and ensuring zero privileged disclosures while delivering on time and within budget.
  • Mobilised two translation vendors to meet a Department of Justice antitrust compliance deadline, enabling closure of a $700 million acquisition and clearing the final hurdle with zero post-transaction conditions imposed.

Career History

Previous Law Firms

  • United States Department of Commerce, Senior International Trade Specialist, (2018 – 2025)
  • Ropes & Gray LLP, Associate (2015 – 2017)
  • White & Case LLP, Associate (2012 – 2015)
  • Early Career: United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division; United States Federal Trade Commission Office of International Affairs

Education

  • Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude
  • Certificate in World Trade Organisation Studies
  • Managing Editor, Georgetown Journal of International Law

 

Not engaged in the practice of New York Law, bar licence Washington.

Expertise

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Luke has in-depth knowledge of the international economic and legal landscape. His range of experience in global trade, antitrust, and complex project leadership encompasses private and public-sector roles. In international trade, Luke has deep expertise in tariffs, customs, export controls, and foreign trade zone programs. Luke devotes collaborative attention and a keen analytical eye to clients’ needs, including litigation risk mitigation, cross-functional legal operations management, regulatory compliance, and antitrust and international trade strategy.

His experience at the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and Department of Commerce has honed his judgment of the regulatory perspectives that affect business. Luke’s private practice at White & Case and Ropes & Gray developed his capabilities in managing risk in high-stakes litigation and counselling scenarios. He has been trusted with cross-functional team leadership, creation of novel processes under pressure, and efficient service delivery when results matter.

Luke brings careful judgment and passion for sound international economic policy to his matters so that business can thrive and evolve in a fast-changing world. He became a lawyer because of his natural tendency toward passionate advocacy for his clients. Luke is a native to change, whether assisting those who create or respond to disruptive technologies.

Luke Advises

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  • Enterprises engaged in international trade and market expansion
  • Parties to reportable M&A transactions
  • Investors, private equity funds, and venture capital firms conducting transaction diligence

Experience Highlights

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  • Managed a federal international trade exclusion program impacting millions of dollars in tariff liability, ensuring adherence to scope, deadlines, and quality standards. Oversaw the preparation of thousands of memoranda supporting administrative recommendations.
  • Prepared key expert witness in a $425 million arbitration, leading to a tribunal decision rejecting all claims and awarding the client $5 million in legal costs in a major international construction dispute.
  • Minimised antitrust compliance burdens by securing early terminations through targeted investigator outreach.
  • Advised a private equity fund to halt a prospective acquisition the same day after identifying high antitrust risk, avoiding $2 million in legal costs and safeguarding $500 million in investment capital.
  • Directed interagency coordination, regulatory decision-making, and litigation support to minimise legal exposure, facilitate foreign trade zone access, and address programmatic vulnerabilities.
  • Led time-pressured document review projects in pursuit of objectives, including internal compliance review, litigation defence, and transaction closing, building a temporary operations centre and ensuring zero privileged disclosures while delivering on time and within budget.
  • Mobilised two translation vendors to meet a Department of Justice antitrust compliance deadline, enabling closure of a $700 million acquisition and clearing the final hurdle with zero post-transaction conditions imposed.

Career History

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Previous Law Firms

  • United States Department of Commerce, Senior International Trade Specialist, (2018 – 2025)
  • Ropes & Gray LLP, Associate (2015 – 2017)
  • White & Case LLP, Associate (2012 – 2015)
  • Early Career: United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division; United States Federal Trade Commission Office of International Affairs

Education

  • Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude
  • Certificate in World Trade Organisation Studies
  • Managing Editor, Georgetown Journal of International Law

 

Not engaged in the practice of New York Law, bar licence Washington.