Claire M. DiMario

Claire DiMario is a Partner in the Firm’s National Security Regulatory Practice. She regularly counsels clients, including some of the largest private equity asset managers and international corporations, on high-profile and complex transactions before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and with respect to related national security matters, including mitigation of foreign ownership, control or influence (FOCI) under industrial security regulations.

Claire has advised clients and successfully navigated CFIUS approvals across numerous industries with national security sensitivities, including technology and software, energy infrastructure, airports and seaports, railroads, aerospace and defense manufacturing, classified government contracting, telecommunications, financial services, and life sciences, among others. Claire also has successfully negotiated commercially acceptable mitigation on behalf of clients before the Committee and secured CFIUS approval for hostile takeovers.

Claire also regularly coordinates worldwide foreign direct investment (FDI) approvals on behalf of clients for sophisticated global transactions that involve national security sensitivities.

Claire’s representative transactions include advising:

• Gridiron Fiber Corp. (d/b/a Lumos Networks) and investment funds managed by affiliates of EQT AB for a proposed joint venture with T-Mobile to own Lumos with an implied value of approximately $1.4 billion
• Radius Recycling, Inc. in connection with its announced acquisition by Toyota Tsusho America, a U.S. subsidiary of Toyota Tsusho Corporation, for $30.00 per share in cash in a transaction with an enterprise value of approximately $1.34 billion
• Cisco Systems in securing worldwide foreign investment approvals for its $28 billion acquisition of Splunk, a cybersecurity company
• A consortium of investors, led by Blackstone and including Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, in the approximately $4.6 billion take private of Cvent Holding Corp
• Stone Point Capital, co-leading a consortium of investors and including sovereign wealth fund Mubadala for the acquisition of Truist Insurance Holdings, Inc. at an implied enterprise value of $15.5 billion
• Melrose Industries PLC in securing CFIUS and other national security regulatory approvals for its unsolicited £8 billion offer to acquire GKN PLC, an automotive, aerospace and defense manufacturing giant
• Oaktree Capital Group, LLC in securing necessary regulatory approvals before CFIUS, DDTC and DCSA in connection with a proposed $4.7 billion merger with Brookfield Asset Management, Inc., resulting in one of the world’s largest asset managers with approximately $475 billion in combined assets under management
• IFM Investors in the $11 billion take-private of data center network Switch, Inc.
• Refinitiv in connection with CFIUS and worldwide foreign investment approvals relating to its blockbuster $27 billion acquisition by the London Stock Exchange Group plc
• TD Bank Group in its approximately $1.3 billion acquisition of Cowen Inc.

Claire received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2017, and her B.A., magna cum laude, from Amherst College in 2014.