Lawyer Bio : Ryan C. Berry

Ryan Berry focuses his practice on risk mitigation, crisis response, investigations, and litigation in support of federal contractors and multi-national corporations.
 
Ryan assists clients in mitigating corporate risk by developing and auditing compliance and anti-corruption programs, instructing employees prior to overseas deployments, and providing risk analyses to companies contemplating geographic or business line expansions. He has conducted anti-corruption due diligence investigations on M&A target companies, agents, and joint venture partners.
 
In the aftermath of critical incidents, Ryan provides rapid crisis response and incident investigation assistance. He is experienced in conducting international investigations rapidly and professionally – helping companies quickly assess what happened, why it happened, and what to do next.
 
The scope of U.S. and foreign governmental oversight directed at federal contractors and multinational corporations has expanded radically over the past decade. Ryan has experience managing company responses and zealously defending contractor interests whether that oversight takes the form of a cure notice from a contracting officer, a subpoena from an agency inspector general, an investigatory letter from a congressional committee, or an indictment from the Department of Justice.
 
Ryan’s litigation experience extends to cross-border disputes with contractor employees, third parties, and subcontractors. He has litigated disputes involving Alien Tort Statute claims, sovereign immunity claims, the application of foreign substantive laws in U.S. courts, contractor immunity arguments and related defenses, transnational arguments, and the international collection and use of evidence.
 
Prior to entering private practice, Ryan developed extensive defense industry experience as a program management and IT systems consultant for ACS Defense and as an active-duty officer in the United States Air Force. During his assignment to Electronic Systems Command (ECS), Ryan managed the Air Forces’ acquisition of campus- and enterprise-wide IT systems. He is experienced in the complete life-cycle administration of defense contracts and is certified as a Defense Acquisition Professional. Ryan was also trained as a Space/Missile Operations Officer and held a Top Secret, compartmentalized security clearance.