Margaret C. Marsh

Margaret C. Marsh

Margaret C. Marsh currently serves as Vice President, Commercial and Legal, at Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) LLC, a next-generation uranium enrichment company based in Wilmington, NC.  In this role, Ms. Marsh supports GLE’s efforts to commercialize its unique laser enrichment technology in the United States.  She advises GLE and provides strategic guidance on a wide array of complex regulatory, legal and commercial matters.

Ms. Marsh previously served as Senior Counsel at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in Washington, DC, where she advised clients on a range of international economic regulatory and trade policy matters. Her expertise included trade remedy litigation, national security tariffs, market access, sanctions, and other complex trade matters before U.S. agencies. She represented domestic uranium producers in a 30-year antidumping suspension agreement before the U.S. Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission (ITC) and developed a deep understanding of the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle.  She also provided strategic advice and advocacy to these clients regarding domestication of the nuclear fuel supply chain.  During her residency in Akin Gump’s Brussels office, Ms. Marsh advised a variety of U.S. clients on the development and implementation of European Union (EU) legislation, especially as it related to the digital economy and EU trade policy and regulation.

Before joining Akin Gump, Ms. Marsh served as a research associate at the National Economic Commission, a blue-ribbon panel chartered by Congress to draft a deficit reduction plan.

In 2022, she was recognized on Thomson Reuters list of Stand-Out Lawyers. Ms. Marsh received her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center and her B.A., cum laude, at Smith College. During college, she studied for a year in Paris at “Sciences Po” and at the Sorbonne. During law school, she worked in Washington, DC and Tallinn, Estonia, with a team led by the Estonian Minister of Justice and funded by USAID to assist Estonia in its drafting of laws necessary to support a market-based economy after the fall of the Soviet Union.