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Jim Perry
 

Jim Perry

Counsel
 
900 G Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001 

Jim Perry advises multinational corporations, private equity funds and financial institutions on a range of regulatory compliance concerns arising from business acquisitions and investments, including national security reviews, economic sanctions, anti-money laundering, and other regulatory concerns.

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Work Highlights

Notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes advising:

  • Major U.S. money services business in its successful resolution of highly complex cross-border economic sanctions investigation
  • Multinational companies in pharmaceutical, satellite communication, military supply, private equity and insurance sectors in successful cross-border foreign direct investment approvals
  • Major European banks in connection with the resolution of alleged violations of U.S. sanctions and anti-money laundering laws and regulations
  • U.S. private equity acquirers in successful “50-state” change of control approval for acquisition of a major international money service business
  • Numerous U.S. and non-U.S. companies, including major social media companies, related to the anti-money laundering, economic sanctions, and federal and state licensing implications of various virtual and financial products and services
Education
  • Georgetown University Law Center, 2014 J.D.
    cum laude; Editor, Georgetown Journal of International Law
  • Carnegie Mellon University, 1995 B.A.
Admissions
  • District of Columbia 
  • Virginia 

Jim Perry is Counsel in Simpson Thacher’s National Security Regulatory Practice. Based in the Firm’s Washington D.C. office, Jim has extensive experience advising multinational corporate clients, private equity funds and global financial institutions in the areas of economic sanctions, anti-money laundering (AML), banking secrecy, Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), foreign direct investment (FDI), and money transmission laws and regulations.

Jim has conducted complex, cross-border sanctions and AML investigations in Europe and Asia and diligence for significant corporate mergers and acquisitions and private equity fund raises. He has advised clients on transaction risk related to CFIUS and FDI and has steered numerous transactions through related reviews and investigations. As part of his AML practice, Jim also advises on the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and FinCEN’s Beneficial Ownership Information rule.

In the course of his work, Jim has advised clients across a wide array of sectors, including aerospace, banking and payments, cryptocurrency/blockchain, defense contracting, fintech, health care, insurance, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, private equity, satellite communication, semiconductors and social media. In recognition of his work, Jim was named one of Best Lawyers’ 2024 Ones to Watch in America.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Jim served as an officer in the U.S. Navy and was deployed to the Middle East. He then spent several years in the Department of the Navy managing bilateral security programs with U.S. partners in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. He later led analytical support to federal counterintelligence and technology protection efforts, working closely with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Department of Commerce, and Department of Homeland Security.

Jim graduated cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was an editor at the Georgetown Journal of International Law. His pro bono legal work includes extensive work with the veteran community, the exoneration of a Navy veteran wrongfully convicted of murder, and a successful asylum petition on behalf of a Somali man fleeing terrorism in his home country.

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