Brendan C Hanifin

Practice Areas

Brendan Hanifin provides clients with comprehensive regulatory and transactional counseling across a range of international risks, including foreign direct investment regulations, economic sanctions, anti-money laundering laws, and anti-corruption laws. Clients value Brendan’s breadth of regulatory knowledge, transactional proficiency, and ability to forge practical solutions tailored to their business and strategic goals.

Brendan represents clients in national security reviews before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), including reviews of non-notified transactions and negotiation of national security agreements. He routinely provides CFIUS-related advice and counseling to private equity sponsors, venture capital firms, sovereign wealth funds, and U.S. businesses throughout all stages of the investment life cycle.

Drawing on his years of experience conducting international risk due diligence, clients rely on Brendan to navigate their most complex cross-border transactions. In this capacity, Brendan has evaluated hundreds of companies’ international risk compliance programs, understanding that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to managing international risks. He leverages this experience to help clients across a broad range of industries perform complex risk assessments and develop (or enhance) effective, risk-based compliance programs. Brendan has particular experience helping U.S. investment managers develop risk-based anti-money laundering and economic sanctions compliance programs.

Brendan also represents clients in multijurisdictional internal investigations and government enforcement actions. He has assisted numerous clients to prepare and resolve disclosures to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

A former member of Law360’s International Trade Editorial Advisory Board, Brendan publishes regularly on international risk-related topics.