SECTORS
Six sectors. One integrated defense-industrial practice.
Defense-industrial transactions are rarely clean. They cross ITAR and EAR, allied procurement frameworks, offset obligations, and the industrial layer beneath them all. We advise from inside that complexity — not from adjacent to it.
APPROACH
Six sectors designed around the question of Western production capacity.
Each sector in our practice was selected because it presents a recurring legal-structural problem that conventional transactional counsel is not built to solve. Each sits at an intersection — of jurisdictions, of regulatory regimes, of industrial and financial disciplines — that most firms distribute across specialist silos.
We do the opposite. A partner who has negotiated an ITAR-governed MLA can also read a PPP concession. A partner who has structured a rare-earth offtake can also work the EU CRMA qualification. This is not breadth for its own sake. It is the only structure under which transactions that actually span these boundaries can close.
The six sectors below are ordered for your current view. Civil mode leads with the industrial and reconstruction practice that defines most mandates. Defense mode leads with defense production and the upstream inputs it depends on. The underlying work is the same; the emphasis shifts with the reader.
THE SIX SECTORS
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Defense Production & Systems
The legal architecture of defense production. ITAR, EAR, MLA and TAA licensing, dual-use classification, autonomous systems regulation, and the commercial-to-defense conversion structures that close the West's production gap.
Critical Materials & Supply Chains
Compound semiconductors, energetic materials, rare earths, and specialty chemicals — the upstream inputs Western defense production depends on, and the export-control architecture that governs them.
Compute, Connectivity & Industrial Data
AI infrastructure, secure communications, GPU compute, and industrial data systems. The technology layer of defense capability, with the export controls and dual-use restrictions that govern it.
Strategic Infrastructure & Energy
The infrastructure that enables defense-industrial output — power, logistics, secured facilities. Sovereign-risk structuring and PPP expertise for programs that cannot fail on non-military grounds.
Industrial Manufacturing
Industrial manufacturing capacity with defense-adjacent applications. Commercial manufacturers scaling into military-relevant output through acquisitions, partnerships, and production-conversion structures.
Ukraine Reconstruction
Defense-industrial integration of Ukrainian capacity into Western supply chains. Procurement, production-sharing, and the export controls that determine what capital can achieve on the ground.