Elizabeth (Liz) Espín Stern

Liz spearheads Mayer Brown's market-leading global worksite management initiative, the Global People Solution™, which offers multinational clients a comprehensive compliance and management program in connection with their mobile workforce. Leveraging a proprietary 10XMOBILITY™ technology that provides clients with a one-stop portal for case tracking, compliance recordkeeping and global know-how, the Global People Solution™ combines best practices in compliance standards, controls and audit preparedness with agile management of visa portfolios and extraordinary solutions for senior executives.

Liz regularly speaks and writes about immigration policies, talent optimization, and diversity, equity and inclusion, and contributes to major news agencies and publications.

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. Liz 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, DE&I, data privacy, export controls, and anti-corruption and anti-bribery regulation.

• Developing the strategies for mobility of global pools of professional workers for a global IT company to meet the company’s staffing demands in locations throughout EMEA, Asia Pacific and the Americas.
• Leading the global team managing a defense supplier's global migration program, coordinating the immigration requirements in multiple countries, including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Spain, Italy, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Taiwan and United Kingdom, and securing work authorization for assignees pursuant to government and commercial services agreements.
• Counseled a government agency on the creation of a training program to facilitate international exchanges with similar entities around the world.
• Counseled a major transportation corporation on immigration and employment compliance to prepare for its Congressional hearing on a multibillion dollar funding bill.
• Facilitating the seamless transfer of employees in over 50 countries in the course of a major reorganization involving divestiture and transfer of a major business segment of a FTSE 100 financial services company.
• Assisting a leading entertainment celebrity to enter the United States in an expedited manner to facilitate filming of a major motion picture during a 5-day production period in New York City.
• Assisting the CEO of a leading IT company with dual citizenship, US residency and related tax planning, over the course of changes in primary residency to three different countries.