Insider expertise for high-stakes national security compliance
Navigating national security issues – CFIUS review, outbound investment restrictions, OFAC sanctions, or geopolitical risk – is serious business for your company. It requires not only understanding complex regulations but also the enforcement agencies’ processes and personalities. At The Rubicon Advisors, we provide clients with unique insider expertise so you can focus on growing your company, anticipate what’s ahead, and gain peace of mind.
Insider experience for high-stakes CFIUS compliance
Navigating Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) review is serious business and requires not only understanding the regulations but also the enforcement agencies’ processes and personalities. At The Rubicon Advisors, we provide clients with unique insider insight so you can grow your company, anticipate what’s ahead, and gain peace of mind.
The Stakes
The consequences for violating U.S. national security regulation can be swift and severe — including large monetary fines, the blocking or unwinding of investments, and serious public relations damage. Typical law and advisory firms provide basic compliance services, but may lack deeper insights to solve current problems and anticipate what lies ahead.
How We Help
At The Rubicon Advisors, we understand these constraints and their potential cost and impact for your company. Our unique value lies in our insider expertise, sophisticated judgement, and decisive recommendations to make the best decision even with imperfect information. Whether you need an experienced hand to develop and quarterback strategy or just someone to gut-check the advice you’ve received, we empower you to make the best decisions to protect your interests and drive long-term success.
Our Founder
Tom Feddo was the first-ever Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Investment Security leading CFIUS from 2019-21, and before that as Deputy Assistant Secretary from 2018-19. Given his substantive expertise and extensive leadership experience, Tom was tapped to lead CFIUS through a historic expansion of its authority and staff, building the infrastructure, regulations, and team that exist today.
Previously, he led economic sanctions enforcement at Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), making him a true unicorn: a DC-insider who not only knows the black-letter law and institutional processes of both CFIUS and OFAC, but who has established and implemented policy, serving as a peer with senior U.S. national security leaders as well as international partners.
Tom knows how big decisions get made and how companies can get themselves in trouble. He has truly unique expertise to help your C-suite or board gut-check decisions that could cost millions or damage one’s public reputation. He enables clients to make the right decision even when time is short and information is imperfect.
About Us
Tom Feddo founded The Rubicon Advisors in 2021 to offer boutique national security advisory services to select clients. Service areas include foreign investment risk, economic sanctions, geopolitical risk, economic statecraft, anti-money laundering requirements, and cross-border transactions. Our clients range from multinational businesses to startups, institutional investors, financial companies and law firms.