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

Firm News | 8 min read | 08.15.24

The Best Lawyers in America 2025 Recognizes 42 Crowell & Moring Attorneys, Three Selected as Lawyer of the Year

Washington – August 15, 2024: The 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 42 Crowell & Moring lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and 29 lawyers as “Ones to Watch.”...

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Nimrah's Insights

Firm News | 8 min read | 08.15.24

The Best Lawyers in America 2025 Recognizes 42 Crowell & Moring Attorneys, Three Selected as Lawyer of the Year

Washington – August 15, 2024: The 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 42 Crowell & Moring lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and 29 lawyers as “Ones to Watch.”...