Elizabeth (Liz) Espín Stern: Partner, Washington DC

Elizabeth Espín Stern is a partner in Mayer Brown’s Washington DC office and a member of the Employment & Benefits group. She has over 25 years of experience advising on US and global immigration, HR and mobility services, and is consistently ranked as a leading business immigration lawyer by Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Who’s Who Legal, The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, and national and local publications. In addition, she has been named in Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers and “Women in Law Awards 2014” by Lawyer Monthly. She spearheads Mayer Brown’s new global worksite management initiative. This “Global People Solution” offers multinational clients, in a variety of sectors including financial services, IT, defense, telecommunications and multimedia, a comprehensive compliance and risk management program in connection with their mobile workforce. Liz regularly speaks and writes about immigration policies and contributes to major news agencies and publications, including Legal Times and Global Employer.

Liz focuses on issues that are unique to dynamic commercial entities with a global work force. She helps companies establish global compliance and management programs to move their executive and professional work corps to various locations around the world. She is knowledgeable in global HR disciplines and transactions, including visas, work permits and compliance and how immigration transactions interface with tax, employment, compensation and benefits, corporate formation, data privacy, export controls, and anti-corruption and anti-bribery regulation.