Clients around the globe rely on the Davis Polk National Security team’s deep experience in CFIUS, European and other investment security reviews, economic sanctions and AML/CFT.

Our interdisciplinary Foreign Investment & National Security group brings together a diverse range of backgrounds and expertise to anticipate and resolve regulatory issues through practical, commercially minded advice. Our lawyers have the depth and breadth of private sector and government experience necessary to take on the most challenging economic sanctions and foreign investment regulatory and enforcement assignments. Our team, with a broad range of regulatory, litigation, and commercial experience, brings a set of ‎skills that we believe is unique among our peers. Our lawyers based in Washington, D.C. combine regulatory and legislative experience and know-how with the practical insights of ‎transactional lawyers who understand what in-house lawyers and business clients need to navigate challenging and uncertain circumstances. Our national security team is also fully integrated with our leading white collar, financial institutions, litigation, and transactional groups, bringing a unique combination of technical expertise and deep practical experience to our clients.

Davis Polk’s Foreign Investment & National Security group operates across a wide range of industries and geographies, with particular experience in evolving restrictions involving global financial, commodity, and export markets and on rapidly evolving policy toward jurisdictions such as Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran. Davis Polk provides advice to financial institutions, fintechs, technology companies and others on compliance issues related to blockchain, cryptocurrency, and digital ‎asset activities, combining deep expertise on the applicable laws and regulations with facility with ‎emerging technologies and innovative business practices in this space. Furthermore, Davis Polk lawyers have been intimately involved in the most significant sanctions litigation and ‎enforcement matters over the past several decades.

Our team also has decades of experience in analyzing and structuring cross-border investments and regularly guides such transactions through review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and by foreign direct investment (FDI) authorities in the European Union, the U.K. and other jurisdictions. We routinely negotiate mitigation agreements and other remedies where necessary and assist clients in implementing such remedies with the lowest commercial impact.