WASHINGTON—Covington’s market-leading National Security Practice has announced an integrated offering bringing together its longstanding expertise and unparalleled experience on cutting-edge national security matters that spans multiple disciplines. Chambers USA ranks Covington Band 1 in National Security nationwide, and the firm also holds Band 1 rankings in closely related disciplines that are often essential to national security matters, including CFIUS, Trade Controls, Government Contracts, White Collar Investigations, Telecom, Broadcast and Satellite, and Privacy and Data Security.
“National security has become a mainstream business issue, and Covington is uniquely positioned as the market leader across multiple disciplines,” said David Fagan, a co-leader of Covington’s National Security Practice and co-chair of the firm’s CFIUS Practice. “Clients increasingly view national security as a core business risk requiring sophisticated legal advice. Our experience derives from more than two decades of leading-edge national security matters, giving the team unusual expertise with disputes, transactions, investigations, and strategic counseling engagements that are high-stakes, cross-disciplinary, and often time-sensitive.”
Covington has unique depth across the full national security landscape. The firm advises on the complete lifecycle of national security-sensitive matters: from structuring and diligence, to regulatory approvals and mitigation, to enforcement defense, internal investigations, remediation, and strategic engagement with government stakeholders. Covington’s lawyers regularly handle matters involving CFIUS, FOCI and industrial security, export controls and economic sanctions, cybersecurity compliance and incident response, public policy, congressional scrutiny, government contracts, economic espionage and theft of trade secrets, the handling of classified information, and national-security-linked M&A.
“Real-world national security risks often arise in unexpected places,” said Susan Cassidy, co-leader of the firm’s National Security Practice and co-chair of the firm’s Aerospace and Defense Industry Group. “Seemingly routine business activities can quickly become national security matters. Clients need advisors who can identify and solve for risks others may not even recognize.”
Covington’s base of National Security clients underscores the breadth of the practice. The firm’s experience reflects work across industries central to U.S. national security, including aerospace and defense, semiconductors, telecommunications, technology, energy, critical minerals, media, financial services, transportation, and advanced manufacturing.
“Covington stands apart for its in-government national security experience,” Jim Garland, a co-leader of Covington’s National Security Practice and member of the firm’s Management Committee. “Our senior lawyers and advisors have served in national security-related roles across the White House, the Departments of Defense, Justice, Homeland Security, Commerce, and State, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the FBI, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, and components of the U.S. Intelligence Community. We bring this collective experience to bear to help clients understand and navigate often opaque processes and devise solutions that account for core national security interests of the U.S. government while also achieving our clients’ commercial objectives.”
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