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Provided by Ivan A Schlager
Ivan Schlager is an international trade and national security partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Ivan provides counsel on structuring, negotiating and documenting transactions to address regulatory issues, including approval by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). His pioneering work includes developing many first-of-their-kind agreements to mitigate CFIUS risk and first-of-their-kind Foci agreements. He represents a diverse group of clients ranging from defense companies, major telecommunications providers, and media and technology companies to private equity firms and companies in the financial services, energy, manufacturing and health care industries. Ivan has significant experience navigating national security reviews and negotiating complex mitigation agreements. He has developed innovative structures to address national security issues in some of the largest and most complex cross-border transactions. He also assists clients with industrial security (including mitigation of foreign ownership, control or influence (FOCI)), international trade, export control and government contracting issues, as well as congressional investigations and other matters involving government relations and investigations.
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Ivan has tremendous subject matter expertise and experience.
Ivan is extremely available, explains everything very precisely and is very pragmatic.
Ivan Schlager is the absolute top of the field in national security law in the US.
Ivan has tremendous subject matter expertise and experience.
Ivan is extremely available, explains everything very precisely and is very pragmatic.
Ivan Schlager is the absolute top of the field in national security law in the US.