Freshfields Hires Former CFIUS Leader Mir in Washington

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired Aimen Mir, who led the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States for almost 10 years, as the head of its CFIUS practice in Washington.

Mir was deputy assistant secretary for investment security at the U.S. Department of the Treasury after serving as CFIUS staff chair beginning in 2008. The Treasury Department leads interagency CFIUS, which has the ability to review and potentially curtail transactions that it deems a national security risk.

Mir played a significant role in implementing the most recent overhauls to the foreign investment review process. He managed the disposition of ...