On September 15th, Partner Josh Rosenstein was quoted in ProPublica regarding whether U.S. Arctic Research Commission chair Thomas Dans’ business ties and activities related to Dutch Company Damen Shipyards implicated the Foreign Agents Registrations Act (FARA). Since his appointment by President Trump last December, Dans has faced scrutiny for potential conflicts of interest stemming from his advocacy for closer U.S.-Russia relations and promotion of foreign commercial interests.

“If Dans was seeking to advance Damen’s interests, he may have been required under the law to register either as a lobbyist or a foreign agent, said Josh Rosenstein, an attorney who is an expert on the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Documents show he’d done neither.

‘It certainly would raise questions…in my mind about what sort of interactions he, on behalf of Damen, had with the U.S. government,’ Rosenstein said. ‘And with whom.'”

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