Christopher Armstrong

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Christopher Armstrong is a Washington, D.C., attorney and a member of Holland & Knight's Public Policy & Regulation Group. His practice focuses on representing a broad range of companies, nonprofit entities and individuals through congressional investigations and oversight hearings involving significant legal, regulatory and political risk. Mr. Armstrong also provides counsel and lobbying services regarding tax, healthcare and international trade matters.

Mr. Armstrong has significant experience working in government, including nearly a dozen years on the staff of the Senate Committee on Finance and House Committee on Ways and Means. He most recently served as general counsel and chief oversight counsel to the Committee on Finance under Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). In this role, Mr. Armstrong led the committee's oversight and investigations activities and advised the chairman and committee members regarding Senate rules and procedure. Mr. Armstrong also previously served as investigative counsel for the committee under then-Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who is now the Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee. In this role, Mr. Armstrong served as lead counsel on several high-profile investigations within the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Armstrong conducted congressional investigations for Chairman Dave Camp (R-Michigan) on the Committee on Ways and Means. This work included leading investigations across the committee's jurisdiction, including sensitive tax-related investigations, oversight of government contractors, and inquiries related to compliance with the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute.

At Holland & Knight, Mr. Armstrong has counseled clients through investigations by the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Oversight and Reform and its Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Committee on Education and Labor, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Committee on Ways and Means, as well as the U.S. Senate's Committee on Finance, Committee on the Judiciary, and Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs as well as inquiries by individual senators. These have included matters involving significant document requests, subpoenas, transcribed interviews and hearing preparation, as well as parallel executive branch investigations.

Mr. Armstrong currently serves as co-chair of the American Bar Association's Legislative Process and Congressional Investigations Committee. He has been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Axios, Roll Call, Politico, Bloomberg, Law360 and other leading publications on congressional oversight and investigation matters.