James Brower and Charles Capito
James Brower is a partner in Morrison Foerster’s litigation department, based in the firm’s Washington D.C. office. He has extensive experience advising and representing clients in matters relating to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and other national security-related matters. He has worked across a variety of departments within the US federal government, including the Defense Security Service (now the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency) within the Department of Defense and the Office of Investment Security within the Department of the Treasury.
Charles Capito is a partner in both Morrison Foerster’s national security and government contracts practice and public procurement practice. In the national security space, he has significant experience counseling clients on the complex and evolving considerations related to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Charles frequently helps investors and US businesses through every aspect of the CFIUS process, from understanding and allocating CFIUS risk on the front end, to presenting cases before the committee, to negotiating appropriate mitigation measures and ultimately to implementing and complying with mitigation agreements after the fact.
