Annie Wartanian Reisinger is a partner in Morrison Foerster’s National Security Group. She brings a combination of U.S. government and corporate leadership and technical knowledge, drawing from over 20 years of advising clients from government, private practice, and in-house positions. Annie advises on all aspects of Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) matters, the outbound investment program, economic sanctions, export controls, and related national security concerns. She has extensive experience catching risks early in due diligence, offering practical mitigation solutions, handling government enforcement matters, and providing keen insights on policy considerations across the national security landscape.

Prior to joining the firm, Annie served in multiple senior roles at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and is one of few practitioners to have served both within the Office of the General Counsel for International Affairs, advising the Office of Investment Security (OIS) on CFIUS matters, and within the Office of the Chief Counsel, advising the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). In her role counseling OIS, she oversaw a team of more than 25 attorneys supporting foreign investment reviews and was a trusted advisor to both Treasury leadership and CFIUS member agencies on complex legal matters related to such reviews. Annie played a critical role in building key aspects of the CFIUS regulatory framework, the non-notified and enforcement practice, the international engagements practice, the Known Investor Program, and initiatives to implement aspects of the America First Investment Policy (AFIP); she also supervised multiple high-profile presidential referrals.

In her role at the Chief Counsel’s Office, she provided legal guidance to OFAC on all aspects of its operations, including licensing determinations, enforcement matters, SDN designations, petitions to delist, litigation in coordination with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), policy and compliance, and technical assistance on legislation and executive orders. She also coordinated with the U.S. Department of State on foreign policy considerations. Additionally, as a Treasury lead on export controls, she regularly advised on the intersection between U.S. Department of Commerce and State export controls and Treasury equities and represented Treasury in the interagency rulemaking process. She also led Treasury’s work on integrity matters involving development finance, advising on anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, and related accountability mechanisms.

Before government service, Annie held multiple leadership roles at a Fortune 500 corporation, where she directed the global export compliance team for its aerospace business, overseeing contract escalations, compliance policies, internal investigations and disclosures, the audit and training programs, and related operational support. She also served as the export and sanctions subject matter advisor for the corporate business development team. Prior to her work in-house, Annie was in private practice for almost a decade, advising clients on export controls, sanctions, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance, and supporting M&A due diligence, global investigations and disclosures, compliance program building, audits, trainings, and related regulatory matters.

Annie is a frequent speaker on CFIUS and compliance, and has received numerous awards recognizing her public service, including the U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of the General Counsel’s Excellence in Management Award and multiple Certificates of Appreciation from the Secretary of the Treasury.

While in law school, Annie was a Global Law Scholar and served on the editorial boards of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review and the Georgetown Law Weekly. She was also part of the Center for Applied Legal Studies clinic and completed a certificate program in U.S.-E.U. comparative law from the University of Siena in Italy. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, she graduated from the Johns Hopkins University with a Bachelor of Arts in international studies and a minor in French, as well as from l’Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) with a diploma in political and social sciences, after successfully completing studies in French. She has also taught a course on the U.S. legal system at the European Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Both before and after law school, Annie lived and worked, in multiple languages, in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Central America.