After spending four years as the deputy Treasury secretary, Robert Kimmitt has returned to Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr as a senior international counsel in the firm’s regulatory and government affairs practices. Kimmitt had been a partner at the firm from 1997 to 2000.
At the Treasury, Kimmitt says he was responsible for overseeing a large portion of the department’s policies and programs, especially in the international sector. Kimmitt had major roles in the Treasury’s work with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and in developing policies directed at investments by sovereign wealth funds. His term expired in January.
Before going into government, Kimmitt worked as vice chairman and president of Commerce One and later as executive vice president for global public policy at Time Warner.
At Wilmer, Kimmitt says he expects to focus his practice on cross-border investment activities. “Investors often need help to make sure that they are doing good due diligence not only on the business and financial aspects of a cross-border deal, but also on the legal and policy aspects.”
Kimmitt says he is looking forward to returning to private practice, though he admits he is going to miss working in government. “Anyone who doesn’t miss public service shouldn’t have gone into it in the first place,” Kimmitt says.
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