Latham Snags National Security and International Trade Hire (1)

Latham & Watkins is bringing aboard Damara Chambers, who focuses on cross-border investment, as a partner in its litigation and white collar practices in Washington.

Chambers is a former U.S. Navy officer who worked in the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. She also worked at the U.S. Senate and for the Secretary of the Department of Energy. Her work has included national security reviews of foreign transactions.

Big Law firms have been bolstering their national security practices in anticipation of reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., or CFIUS, of transactions involving investments in U.S. companies by foreign ...