BIS Corporate Enforcement Chief to Leave Agency
Raj Parekh, a DOJ lawyer who was named the Bureau of Industry and Security’s first chief of corporate enforcement in September (see 2409120007), is leaving BIS next week to join the law firm Sparacino, he announced on LinkedIn. Parekh said his departure from government is “entirely unrelated to current events,” adding that his one-year detail as the BIS corporate enforcement chief “would have continued if it were not for this unique opportunity in the private sector.”
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The Biden administration created the BIS corporate enforcement chief position to help the agency coordinate complex corporate export control-related investigations with DOJ (see 2501020005 and 2411250027). BIS and DOJ didn’t respond to a request for comment about whether the agencies planned to replace Parekh.
Parekh will lead Sparacino’s new national security practice focused on cases in the Eastern District of Virginia.