John Carlin (Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM)
John Carlin has spent most of his career in public service, focusing in recent years on national security and cyber investigations. He’s now on the other side of the table as a partner at Morrison & Foerster in Washington, where he leads the firm’s global risk and crisis management team.
Carlin couldn’t be better positioned, leading the group at a time of rising tensions between the United States and its trading and investment partners over national security and economic interests. He joined the firm from the U.S. Department of Justice in January. At Main Justice, he was the assistant attorney general in charge of the National Security Division.
One big part of the law that’s on Carlin’s plate now: advising companies that are tangled up in reviews by the once-obscure Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS. At the DOJ, Carlin was the Justice Department’s representative on CFIUS, the interagency panel that reviews mergers and acquisitions involving foreign companies for national security threats….
