Aimen Mir
Global Guide 2024
Band 2 : International Trade: CFIUS Experts
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About
Provided by Aimen Mir
Practice Areas
Aimen heads Freshfields’ practice related to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and is a leader in the firm’s global foreign investment review practice. As a core member of the firm’s national security practice, Aimen also advises clients on technology transfer policy and export control matters and other national security and foreign policy-based regulation of international business transactions.
Career
Prior to joining Freshfields as a partner, Aimen managed the interagency CFIUS review process for eight years, first as CFIUS Staff Chair and then as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Investment Security at the Department of the Treasury. In these roles, Aimen coordinated review, consensus, and final action by and among the nine CFIUS member agencies and other participating government agencies in over 1,000 transactions across all sectors of the economy. He also served as the principal U.S. government liaison with partner governments on foreign investment review issues, the principal liaison with Congress on CFIUS, and played a leading role in shaping and negotiating the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA), the most significant expansion of CFIUS’s powers in 30 years. During his time in government, Aimen also served as counsel in the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Chambers Review
Global
Aimen Mir handles the CFIUS review process for a host of well-known clients. He frequently works with technology companies and manufacturers.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Aimen is terrific. He is a bright, good lawyer and provides good counsel to his clients."
"Aimen was key to us obtaining CFIUS approvals successfully and timely."
"Aimen is an extremely thoughtful lawyer; he looks at both the letter of the law and the intent of the law, process and the policy."
"Aimen is terrific. He is a bright, good lawyer and provides good counsel to his clients."
"Aimen was key to us obtaining CFIUS approvals successfully and timely."
"Aimen is an extremely thoughtful lawyer; he looks at both the letter of the law and the intent of the law, process and the policy."
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