Nimrah Najeeb

Counsel

Overview

Nimrah Najeeb is a counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, D.C. office and a member of the firm’s International Trade group. Nimrah focuses her practice on cross-border transactions and national security matters, including reviews conducted by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), as well as economic sanctions, export controls, and anti-money laundering. Nimrah represents clients in all stages of the CFIUS process, including conducting diligence and national security risk assessments, evaluating CFIUS jurisdictional issues, advising on deal structure and strategy, preparing CFIUS filings, and negotiating complex mitigation agreements. 

Nimrah also routinely represents clients on matters involving U.S. and multinational economic sanctions and export controls, including day-to-day compliance guidance, transactional and M&A-related advice, counseling, licensing, and internal and governmental investigations involving the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), and the U.S. State Department.  Nimrah has been recognized by Super Lawyers as a "Rising Star" in international law since 2019.

Before joining Crowell & Moring, Nimrah worked as an associate at a Washington, D.C. law firm, where she advised clients on international trade, political law, and white collar matters.

Nimrah has also worked in the corporate practice of a law firm in New York where, in addition to representing private equity, health care, and technology clients in corporate matters, she represented a pro bono client in immigration/asylum proceedings. Prior to that, Nimrah was a fellow at the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice in New York, where she focused on public international law, human rights, and corporate social responsibility matters. During law school, she served as an intern at the Office of the Under-Secretary General for Legal Affairs in the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs.

Career & Education

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    • Bryn Mawr College, B.A., cum laude, political science and history, 2010
    • Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 2013
    • Bryn Mawr College, B.A., cum laude, political science and history, 2010
    • Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 2013
    • District of Columbia
    • New York
    • District of Columbia
    • New York
    • Urdu
    • Urdu

Nimrah's Insights

Client Alert | 7 min read | 11.27.24

CFIUS Finalizes Regulations to Increase Penalties, Expand Subpoena Authority, and Enhance Enforcement Authorities to Protect National Security

On Monday, November 18, 2024, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS” or the “Committee”) announced that it had finalized the regulatory changes previewed in April that will enhance certain CFIUS procedures and sharpen its penalty and enforcement authorities.[1]  The changes go into effect on December 26, 2024 and as described in more detail below: (a) expand the types of information that CFIUS can require transaction parties and other persons (i.e., third-parties) submit when engaging with them on transactions that were not filed with CFIUS; (b) broaden the instances in which CFIUS may use its subpoena authority, including when seeking to obtain information from third persons not party to a transaction notified to CFIUS and in connection with assessing national security risk associated with non-notified transactions; and (c) substantially increase monetary penalties for violations of CFIUS regulations from a maximum of U.S. $250,000 to U.S. $5 million per violation, or the value of the transaction, whichever is greater....

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Nimrah's Insights

Client Alert | 7 min read | 11.27.24

CFIUS Finalizes Regulations to Increase Penalties, Expand Subpoena Authority, and Enhance Enforcement Authorities to Protect National Security

On Monday, November 18, 2024, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS” or the “Committee”) announced that it had finalized the regulatory changes previewed in April that will enhance certain CFIUS procedures and sharpen its penalty and enforcement authorities.[1]  The changes go into effect on December 26, 2024 and as described in more detail below: (a) expand the types of information that CFIUS can require transaction parties and other persons (i.e., third-parties) submit when engaging with them on transactions that were not filed with CFIUS; (b) broaden the instances in which CFIUS may use its subpoena authority, including when seeking to obtain information from third persons not party to a transaction notified to CFIUS and in connection with assessing national security risk associated with non-notified transactions; and (c) substantially increase monetary penalties for violations of CFIUS regulations from a maximum of U.S. $250,000 to U.S. $5 million per violation, or the value of the transaction, whichever is greater....