Jay is a Senior Equity Partner and Co-Chair of Nelson Mullins' International Practice Group. He works primarily out of the firm's Washington, D.C. and Greenville, South Carolina offices. Jay's practice focuses on international trade issues, particularly trade remedy work involving Tariffs, Customs and Antidumping/Countervailing Duty matters. This work involves compliance advice as well as the handling of disputes before the US Court of International Trade, the US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agency, the International Trade Commission and the US Department of Commerce, bodies before whom Jay has made multiple appearances on behalf of US and foreign clients. Jay also provides outside corporate counsel to a variety of U.S. and foreign businesses, including advising these clients on cross-border M&A issues, corporate governance, commercial/supplier relationships, and economic development incentives. From 2006 to 2009, Jay served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Greenville Area Development Corporation, the primary economic development vehicle of Greenville County, South Carolina. In addition, he has practiced law in Mexico and Brazil as a Foreign Legal Consultant and is fluent in both Spanish and Portuguese.

Katy is the co-chair of the firms Data Breach and Privacy Litigation Group. Katy is shaped by her service as a U.S. Marine officer, and she brings over two decades of military leadership experience to her crisis management and disputes practice. Serving first as Marine prosecutor turned civil trial attorney and litigator, Katy's practice focuses on consumer protection and advertising class action litigation, government and internal investigations, and data breach and privacy litigation across the country in state and federal courts. She combines her operational and team-building skills with her in-house experience to guide global clients through complex legal challenges and crises. Katy is a Certified Information Privacy Professional US and a Certified Information Privacy Manager. She also remains active in the Marine Reserves and is a lieutenant colonel. During her military service, Katy completed three combat deployments and a command tour where she led over 500 Marines and sailors located across three states. In her final active-duty military assignment, she was the senior Marine prosecutor for the National Capital Region and first-chaired several felony trials.

Ericka focuses her practice on cybersecurity and privacy, with significant experience leading global incident response, regulatory investigations, and litigation arising from data breaches and security incidents. As the former Global Cybersecurity Counsel for ByteDance, including TikTok and its other affiliated companies, she regularly advises clients in high-pressure moments following cybersecurity events, coordinating internal investigations, breach notifications, and multijurisdictional regulatory responses. Ericka also defends clients in enforcement actions brought by the DOJ, FTC, SEC, OCR, and state Attorneys General, particularly where privacy violations or disclosure obligations are at issue. In addition to her response work, Ericka provides proactive counsel on cybersecurity risk management, including leading tabletop exercises, advising boards of directors, and designing privacy and incident response programs. She has led cross-border incident response efforts and overseen global regulatory engagement for large, highly regulated organizations. She has also served as outside counsel to state and local governments, advising public agencies, including in healthcare and education—on cybersecurity preparedness and breach response.