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Our Nanotechnology Group includes Michael Chertoff, who served as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. As Secretary, he led a 218,000 person department with a budget of $50 billion. Mr. Chertoff promulgated homeland security regulations and spearheaded a national cyber security strategy. He also served on the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council, and on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
Covington frequently counsels our domestic and international clients on regulatory, judicial, and legislative matters related to US homeland and national security. Our lawyers have significant expertise in representing clients before the national security agencies in the United States, with many of our senior lawyers having served in key national security decision-making positions. We specialize in assisting clients on sensitive business, investigatory, and regulatory compliance challenges related to homeland and national security. Our work in this area has involved transactions and representations on other matters before the US national security agencies on behalf of clients in various industries that are developing and benefiting from nanotechnologies, including the semiconductor, aviation, defense, software, telecommunications, and biotechnology industries, as well as several university-affiliated research laboratories.
Representative Matters
- We have advised a leading nanoscience company on issues concerning the applicability to its new products and technology of US export controls, including State Department regulations governing the export and deemed export of defense articles and services. This assignment has required analysis, among other questions, of when scientific research reaches a stage of development at which export controls impose restrictions on the sharing of that technology with foreign persons, including foreign-national employees.
- We have represented clients in the semiconductor industry in securing US government national security approvals for investments and acquisitions, including the joint venture between Advanced Technology Investment Company and Advanced Micro Devices to form GLOBALFOUNDRIES and e2v Technologies' acquisition of QP Semiconductor.
- We have advised multiple university-affiliated laboratories on various matters regarding the protection of their technology, including advice on compliance with US export control laws and national industrial security regulations.
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