Ryan Fayhee

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ABOUT RYAN FAYHEE

Ryan Fayhee is a partner at Akin Gump and is a former official and senior prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Department. Ryan’s practice focuses on government and congressional investigations, crisis management, cross-border compliance, corporate governance, and white collar criminal defense. Ryan draws upon a multi-disciplinary skillset to assist corporations, boards of directors, audit committees, and senior executives facing high-profile reputational risks and incident response, often involving U.S. and foreign regulators and enforcement authorities, political stakeholders, and the media. He also advises clients on acquisition due diligence, and national security reviews before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). An experienced trial lawyer, Ryan has successfully tried several cases to verdict, and regularly represents clients before the DOJ, other federal law enforcement authorities, and trade regulators at the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), and the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC).Prior to private practice, Ryan served for 11 years in the DOJ, where he was a leading prosecutor handling complex cross border investigations and prosecutions affecting the national security and foreign policy of the United States, including espionage, sanctions and embargoes, arms proliferation, trade secret theft, cybercrime, corruption, and money laundering. Ryan also served in the National Security Division, where he most recently served as the principal DOJ attorney overseeing sanctions and export control prosecutions nationally. He also served on the inter-agency staff for CFIUS. Ryan maintains a Chambers-ranked export control and sanctions practice and has been named to Global Investigations Review’s elite list of the most respected sanctions lawyers in Washington, D.C. The Legal 500 has recognized Ryan for “excel[ing] at leading and conducting investigatory work as a result of the ‘wealth of experience and insights’ he gained in his former position as a DOJ national security prosecutor.” Ryan was also recently recognized in Lawdragon’s Inaugural 500 Leading Litigators in America Guide.