Juan Nascimbene

Juan helps companies, investors and boards navigate the legal issues that arise when geopolitics becomes a business problem. His practice brings together international trade, economic security and national security, with a particular focus on technology and life sciences. He advises clients on sanctions, export controls, foreign investment screening, tariffs and other trade restrictions that can affect where and how they invest, sell, operate and grow globally.

Much of Juan’s work involves situations where several of these regimes come together. A financing or acquisition may raise foreign investment, sanctions and export control issues. Expansion into a new market may create trade, supply-chain or national security risks. Technologies that were once treated as purely commercial can quickly become strategically sensitive. Juan helps clients make sense of those overlapping rules, identify what actually matters to their business and decide what to do next.

Before joining Cooley, Juan worked in government on international trade and investment policy and negotiations. That experience continues to shape his approach in private practice: He looks not only at what the rules say today, but also at where governments are heading and what those changes are likely to mean commercially.

Based in London and licensed to practice in England and Wales, New York, and Argentina, Juan advises some of the world’s most innovative technology, life sciences and venture-backed companies.