National Security Investigations

Our legal team is experienced in all aspects of national security law and conducting related investigations. Our track record includes:

• leading multiple highly sensitive federal government- facing internal investigations involving unauthorized access to classified information, institutional fraud, and systemic institutional compliance failures
• representing clients in both internal and government- facing investigations involving sanctions, export controls, ITAR, anti-money laundering and threat finance issues 
• representing international businessmen and philanthropists before multiple US federal government agencies on export controls and other issues implicating
• conducting international fraud and corruption investigations, including some of the most significant investigations in recent history, as well as the government negotiations resulting from, and the remediation of controls required by, these investigations   
• conducting money-laundering investigations for financial institutions and non-financial companies
• representing global corporate intelligence and investigative services firms in national security matters, intelligence collection activities and investigative practices
• representing a European global semi-conductor company before CFIUS and navigating a National Security Agreement upon acquisition of a US semiconductor company with ITAR controlled technology
• representing a global data storage firm before the US government during an investigation related to ITAR violations that spanned several years, dozens of countries, and hundreds of violations
• representing a European global manufacturing company before the US  government after discovering thousands of ITAR and EAR violations over a period of several years
• advising a global internet commerce company following discovery of a cybersecurity breach by an international criminal organization. Coordinated with the United States interagency to obtain stolen data and identify bad actors
• conducting investigation of sanctions violations for European industrial company in one of its Asian joint ventures
• conducting sanctions investigation for Middle Eastern financial institution