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Mr Nathan Mitchell
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Nathan Mitchell is an international trade and national security partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Nathan Mitchell advises clients on national security matters, including reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), and Team Telecom, as well as on cybersecurity and information privacy issues.
Nathan gained significant national security experience as a lawyer for the U.S. government, including most recently as an associate general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). In that role, he worked on CFIUS matters, including developing the ODNI’s input on the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act. Nathan also advised ODNI and U.S. intelligence officials on a range of issues related to intelligence activities and cyber operations. Among other things, he helped author procedures for protecting the civil liberties and privacy of U.S. persons during the course of intelligence collection activities, and served as legal adviser to the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center.
During his last year at the ODNI, Nathan was detailed to the Foreign Investment Review Section of the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, where he worked on CFIUS matters. Nathan reviewed and investigated transactions in a number of industries, such as telecommunications, insurance, electronics and cybersecurity. His experience includes identifying national security risks presented by covered transactions and developing measures to resolve those risks, including through mitigation agreements or conditions imposed by CFIUS. Nathan also monitored companies’ compliance with mitigation agreements and worked on other matters related to national security and foreign investment, including the federal government’s supply chain risk-management initiatives.
Before joining the intelligence community, Nathan served as a lawyer for the U.S. Army in the Office of the Army General Counsel, in both active duty and civilian positions. As a captain in the U.S. Army, Nathan served as an assistant to the Army general counsel. Later, as a civilian, he served as an associate deputy general counsel. In these positions, Nathan gained experience in information security and privacy, where, among other things, he advised senior Army officials on responding to data breaches and developed the data-privacy protections for the Army’s “Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers,” a groundbreaking partnership between the Army and the National Institute of Mental Health that produced the largest study of mental health ever conducted among military personnel.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > International Trade > CFIUS
Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s formidable offerings in cross-border M&A and private equity translate into a thriving national security practice, which engages with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) across the full transaction lifecycle. Sources highlight the Washington DC-based team’s ‘exceptional relationship with the CFIUS administration’, with department co-chair Mario Mancuso standing out for his experience as a former senior CFIUS decision-maker in his previous role as Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security at the Department of Commerce (DOC). Mancuso recently teamed up with next-generation partner Lucille Hague to advise BDP International on the CFIUS aspects of its sale to Singapore-based PSA International. A ‘down-to-earth expert’, department co-chair Ivan Schlager is widely recognized as a market leader in CFIUS work, with particular experience in the private equity sphere on behalf of clients such as Blackstone, Bain Capital and Warburg Pincus. The group also draws on Nathan Mitchell, who has a focus on CFIUS and national security matters, and Daniel Gerkin, whose practice takes in a wide range of export controls and sanctions, customs and CFIUS-related issues.
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Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International Trade > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Government > Government relations
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Government > State attorneys general
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds