Morrison & Foerster’s National Security practice
provides strategic advice and counseling to clients on a broad
range of challenging regulatory and compliance matters in the
national security space. In advising clients, the firm draws on the
deep subject-matter experience of the firm’s attorneys, many
of whom held key roles in government earlier in their careers.
Recently, the firm welcomed into its ranks a new associate,
Kristofer Readling, who previously served as an enforcement officer
in the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets
Control (OFAC). In joining the firm, Mr. Readling is reunited with
his former colleagues John Smith, who left OFAC as its Director to
become a co-head of the National Security group almost a year ago,
and Michael Dobson, who served as one of the U.S.
government’s leading sanctions officials in the development
and implementation of U.S. sanctions policy toward Russia and
throughout the Western Hemisphere. This new addition
