Aimen Mir > Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
700 13TH STREET NW
10TH FLOOR
WASHINGTON, DC 20005
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Work Department

Antitrust, Competition, and Trade

Position

Partner

Career

With more than a decade of experience shaping and implementing US national security and investment policy, Aimen focuses on the national security review of foreign investments conducted by the interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), US technology transfer and export control policy, and other national security and foreign policy-based regulations of international business transactions.

Aimen is a partner in our Washington-based antitrust, competition and trade practice and our global sanctions and trade practice. He joined the firm after serving in several leadership roles in CFIUS and the US Department of the Treasury. Most recently, he spent four years as deputy assistant secretary for investment security at the US Department of the Treasury, serving as the senior-most career CFIUS official and implementing Treasury’s role as the chair of CFIUS. In his leadership roles, Aimen managed CFIUS review and resolution of over 1,000 transactions, with an aggregate value exceeding $1.3tn. He also served as the principal US government liaison with partner governments on foreign investment review issues.

Lawyer Rankings

United States > International trade and national security > CFIUS

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP‘s team is under the leadership of high-profile national security heavyweight Aimen Mir, whose exhaustive list of government-side roles includes a stint as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Investment Security at the USDT. Under the leadership of Washington DC-based Mir, the CFIUS practice continues to gain traction in the market, where it is acting for major corporate and sovereign clients in the financial services, technology and energy spheres, among other sensitive industries. Special counsel Christine Laciak, also in Washington DC, fronts the global foreign investment review team; she advises on foreign investment review regimes worldwide, with a focus on CFIUS matters.