Clients around the globe rely on our deep experience in CFIUS, European and other investment security reviews, economic sanctions and export controls, and AML/CFT.
Our Foreign Investment & National Security team is fully integrated with our transactional teams to anticipate and resolve regulatory issues through practical, commercially minded advice. Our lawyers have extensive transactional backgrounds and the depth and breadth of private sector and government experience necessary to take on the most challenging foreign investment and national security regulatory and enforcement assignments.
Our team has decades of experience in analyzing and structuring cross-border investments and regularly guides such transactions through review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and by foreign direct investment (FDI) authorities in the European Union, the U.K. and other jurisdictions. We routinely negotiate mitigation agreements and other remedies where necessary and assist clients in implementing such remedies with the lowest commercial impact.
We also have deep experience in advising businesses operating in high-risk jurisdictions and industries worldwide regarding compliance with sanctions imposed by the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Department of State and other authorities. Relatedly, we advise financial institutions and corporations on anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) matters, including the requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and its implementing regulations.
Where necessary, we work closely with our seasoned White Collar Defense & Investigations team in defending high-stakes civil and criminal claim involving AML/BSA, sanctions and fraud.
