Joshua Gruenspecht

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Joshua Gruenspecht is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he advises domestic and foreign investors, funds, established companies and startups in regulatory, investigative, and enforcement matters.

Joshua routinely represents domestic businesses and foreign entities before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), federal defense and intelligence agencies, state utilities commissions, and other government bodies on national security, cybersecurity, and communications matters. He has negotiated security agreements, information sharing agreements, and network and physical security plans and policies with CFIUS, DCSA, the FCC, and various other federal agencies. On a transactional level, he negotiates on behalf of clients to allocate national security risk; as counsel to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) in connection with CFIUS matters, he authored the NVCA model CFIUS language for risk allocation in venture capital investing. In addition, he assists clients in assessing the U.S. transactional risks associated with foreign direct investment (FDI) reviews across the world.