Daanish Hamid

Daanish Hamid is a partner in Rimon’s Washington DC office. He maintains an interdisciplinary practice that covers corporate transactions, regulatory compliance, and internal investigations.

On the transactional side, Mr. Hamid focuses on business formation, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, technology licensing, joint ventures, distribution/supply chains, business partner agreements, and other commercial relationships.

Mr. Hamid serves clients ranging from emerging businesses to prominent multi-national public companies involved with software, semiconductors, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence/big data, autonomous vehicles, robotics, e-commerce, financial services, fintech, biotechnology, defense/aerospace, renewable energy, and international development. He also advises financial institutions, multilateral development banks, private equity and venture capital firms, and corporate VC arms of major corporations.

On the regulatory side, Mr. Hamid has extensive experience counseling clients on national security reviews, anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, fraud, and economic sanctions matters.

Mr. Hamid represents investors and companies before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and other U.S. government agencies in relation to their cross-border M&A and strategic investments. He counsels clients on structuring their corporate deals to reduce exposure to CFIUS regulations and filings.

Mr. Hamid has extensive experience with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Notably, he authored the FCPA chapter of the third edition of  Corruption and Misuse of Public Office, a leading treatise published by Oxford University Press.

He advises clients on designing and implementing risk-based compliance programs, including drafting codes of conduct, policies, procedures, and other internal controls. Mr. Hamid handles sophisticated anti-corruption and anti-money laundering due diligence reviews of investors, joint venture partners, sales representatives, distributors, suppliers, consultants, vendors, and other business partners. He also trains company boards, executives, employees, and vendors on domestic and cross-border compliance matters.

Mr. Hamid conducts internal investigations and counsels clients on whether concerns need to be disclosed to government authorities or can be effectively self-remediated. He has led numerous corporate, regulatory, and investigations matters in China and other Asian countries, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. His practice includes the sanctions and debarment process administered by the World Bank and other multilateral development banks.

Mr. Hamid received a law degree with honors from the University of Oxford and a Juris Doctor from the George Washington University Law School, where he was a member of the International Law Review.