Build America, Buy America, and Construction Contractors: Best Practices for Compliance, Contract Considerations

Ms. Lent is an experienced government contracts and grants lawyer who advises companies on a range of matters from responding to procurements, protesting awards, complying with regulatory requirements, responding to investigations, and pursuing disputes. She advises clients on compliance with domestic content laws, including the Build America, Buy America Act. Ms. Lent is also a leading advisor in the energy and transportation infrastructure space. She provides comprehensive counsel to private, nonprofit and public entities on critical issues impacting the energy and transportation infrastructure sector. Before joining Akin, Ms. Lent served as counsel to the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and as counsel for investigations and oversight to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Mr. Ramish is a partner in the firm’s government contracts, federal grants, and construction practice groups. His practice spans the multitude of issues unique to doing business with the U.S. government, with particular emphasis on claims and disputes, and subspecialties including domestic preferences, data rights and intellectual property, cost and pricing, cybersecurity, small business compliance, and subcontracting and supply chain issues. Mr. Ramish is co-author, with Jonathan D. Shaffer, of Federal Grant Practice: A Guide for the Government and Grantees (Thomson Reuters, 2025 Ed.). He serves on the Section Council of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Public Contract Law and is Secretary of the Construction and Public Contracts Section Council of the Virginia Bar Association (VBA).