Carrie E. Miller

Carrie Miller is a counsel in Goodwin’s Global Trade practice and a member of the firm’s Business Law Department. Carrie’s practice focuses on international trade and foreign investment matters, including assistance with U.S. export controls, sanctions, and customs laws, as well as CFIUS and other national security issues.  She joined Goodwin in 2020.

As a key contributor to the firm’s Global Trade practice, Carrie counsels clients regarding foreign investment matters and regulatory compliance with U.S. export controls and OFAC sanctions programs. She provides counseling across a range of industries, including technology, aerospace and defense, life sciences, financial services, and private equity, regarding export control obligations arising under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), sanctions compliance requirements for US and non-US companies. She has advised dozens of clients on CFIUS risk considerations and filings, as well as responses to outreach from CFIUS. Carrie has led internal investigations and voluntary disclosure efforts for potential EAR, ITAR, and OFAC violations, and assisted with compliance audits and programs, for numerous multinational companies. Carrie also has experience with import/customs and trade remedies laws, including handling matters before US Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Before joining Goodwin, Carrie held positions in the international trade and national security practices of two global law firms.  She graduated from William & Mary Law School, where she served as Managing Editor of the William & Mary Law Review. Carrie was also involved in the Appellate and Supreme Court Clinic while at William & Mary.    

Carrie began her career as an investigator with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.

Carrie maintains an active pro bono practice, primarily supporting clients with immigration, international human rights, and reproductive rights issues.  She currently serves as an Associate Board Member for the Metro DC chapter of BUILD, a national nonprofit organization that supports entrepreneurial and college readiness curricula in underserved public schools and gives students the opportunity to launch their own businesses.

Carrie is recognized as a Recommended Lawyer by the Legal 500 US for her work in Customs, Export Controls, and Economic Sanctions.

• Co-Author, “Access Restricted: DOJ Prohibits or Restricts Data Sharing with China, Russia, and Other Specified Countries” Goodwin Client Alert, January 10, 2025
• Co-Author, “OFAC Targets Gazprombank and More Than 50 Other Banks in New Wave of Sanctions Against Russia's Financial System,” Goodwin Client Alert, November 22, 2024
• Co-Author, “Twenty Questions: Outbound Investment Security Program Targets China's Semiconductor, Quantum Computing, and AI Industries,” Goodwin Client Alert, November 7, 2024
• Co-Author, “Bigger Fish to Fry: BIS Refines Voluntary Self-Disclosure Process for Minor EAR Violations,” Goodwin Client Alert, February 14, 2024
• Co-Author, “Marking One Year of War, US Broadens Sanctions and Export Controls Against Russia and Other Actors,” Goodwin Client Alert, March 6, 2023
• Co-Author, “Substantial Enhancement of Sanctions and Export Controls Targeting Russia and Belarus, Phase II,” Goodwin Client Alert, February 25, 2022
• Co-Author, “Spring Cleaning: US Department of Commerce Eliminates Certain Reporting Requirements for Encryption Software,” Goodwin Client Alert, March 31, 2021.
• Co-author, “OFAC Implements Chinese Military Company Sanctions, Issues Rounds of New FAQs,” Goodwin Client Alert, January 29, 2021.
• Author, “Parting the Dark Money Sea: Exposing Politically Active Tax-Exempt Groups Through FEC-IRS Hybrid Enforcement,” 57 WM. & MARY L. REV. 341, 2015