Shannon Reaves - Partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
Shannon Reaves is a Partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP in its Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Reaves centers his practice in the areas of cross-border transaction reviews before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), industrial security, including Foreign Ownership, Control or Influence (FOCI) mitigation matters before the U.S. Departments of Defense and Energy, and export control compliance.
Mr. Reaves has represented clients in hundreds of CFIUS reviews, performed industrial security due diligence on numerous transactions and investigated multiple regulatory violations, including FOCI mitigation, sanctions, and export controls violations. In addition, Mr. Reaves negotiates and prepares FOCI mitigation/negation arrangements, including Special Security Agreements, Proxy Agreements, Security Control Agreements and FOCI Board Resolutions.
Prior to joining Stroock, Mr. Reaves worked as an Associate at Kaye Scholer LLP. Mr. Reaves has an B.A. from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the American University Washington College of Law (’09).