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Benjamin G. Joseloff, a former White House and U.S. Treasury Department official, focuses his practice on advising U.S. and international clients on the regulatory aspects of cross‑border mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, investments and other business transactions. Mr. Joseloff is known in particular for his expertise on matters relating to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Mr. Joseloff was born in Tokyo, Japan. He received a B.A. summa cum laude from New York University in 2004, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. with Pro Bono Distinction from Stanford Law School in 2008, where he was an Associate Managing Editor and Legislative Notes Editor of the Law and Policy Review and Co‑President of the International Law Society. Following his graduation, Mr. Joseloff served as a law clerk to Hon. Janet C. Hall of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. After his clerkship, he was a fellow at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, Afghanistan. Mr. Joseloff joined Cravath in 2010 as a corporate associate where he worked on securities offerings, syndicated loan transactions and mergers and acquisitions prior to leaving for government in 2014. Mr. Joseloff returned to the Firm in 2019 and was elected of counsel in 2022.