Morrison & Foerster has recruited John Smith, a former director of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, for its office in Washington, D.C.

Smith left OFAC in April and will work as a partner in MoFo’s global risk and crisis management, national security and investigations and white-collar groups. Smith said he considered more than a dozen other firms, but settled on MoFo due to its top-notch national security practice with global sanctions and anti-money laundering expertise, as well as the firm’s deep bench in investigations and enforcement.

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