Partner in the national security practice at Davis Polk focusing on CFIUS and other foreign investment reviews, economic sanctions, export controls, and financial crimes compliance with 25+ years of cross-border transactional experience.

IIRR believes in inspiring, building capacity, and supporting people to fight poverty in their own communities. To do this, we work directly with partners in the community to implement sustainable, community development projects, to test innovations, and to document and widely share our joint work through publications, videos, and conferences. Our current work includes programs focusing on education for marginalized communities, food security and sustainable wealth creation, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, and applied learning based on field experience in community development.

Extensive experience with counseling, compliance, and corporate governance/enforcement issues for cross-border transactions, including OFAC, EU and other economic sanctions; anti-money laundering laws and regulations; Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, UK Bribery Act, and other anticorruption laws; CFIUS and other foreign investment controls; and BIS and ITAR export controls. Also has broad transactional experience in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and general corporate transactions. Sectoral experience includes financial institutions, private equity, telecoms, and high tech; geographic experience includes the European Union (resident in Brussels for 3 1/2 years), Russia, China, and a number of other Asian and Latin American jurisdictions.