John leads our economic sanctions and national security practice. With over 30 years of experience in export controls, economic sanctions and foreign investment regulation, including CFIUS reviews, he advises U.S. and international clients on trade, security and regulatory issues, representing clients before the U.S. Departments of State, Treasury, Commerce, Defense and Homeland Security. John counsels on a wide range of international transactional, compliance and enforcement issues.

Chambers USA ranks John in the top tier of international trade lawyers, calling him a “highly respected” CFIUS lawyer “perfectly placed to provide high-level advice to the financial institutions that increasingly come knocking on his door.” Clients say he is “diplomatic and savvy when dealing with governments in tense situations and creative in how he analyzes problems.”

John provides pro bono advice to Doctors Without Borders, the African Leaders’ Malaria Alliance and the Medicines Patent Pool, among others.