DLA Piper partners Christine Daya and Nicholas Klein named to Foreign Investment Watch’s 2025 list of Top Advisors

DLA Piper is pleased to announce that partners Christine Daya and Nicholas Klein have been named to Foreign Investment Watch’s 2025 list of Top Advisors providing advice and counsel concerning foreign investment and national security in the US and abroad.

Daya and Klein both serve as Co-Chairs of the firm’s National Security and Global Trade practice and Global Co-Chairs of its Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and Global Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) practices.

They advise on a variety of laws and policy at the intersection of national security and global trade and have extensive experience advising US companies and foreign investors on investment security risk, including risk related to inbound and outbound investment. They represent clients across all sectors and involving a wide variety of transactions, from high-volume venture capital deals for both companies and investors to multi-billion-dollar private equity and strategic public-company M&A. Their clients include, among others, multinational conglomerates, sovereign wealth funds, private equity/venture capital investors and targets.

The Global FDI practice, which they co-chair, provides a unique and expansive footprint to manage cross-border investment security risk, often involving several different jurisdictions. In addition to CFIUS, they have been at the forefront of advising on the new Outbound Investment Regulations and helping clients navigate evolving restrictions on their ability to invest in certain sectors connected to the Chinese economy.