Carl Valenstein is a senior partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP in the Boston office. His practice, which spans 40 years (the first 30 of which were spent in Washington, DC), focuses on domestic and international corporate and securities matters, mergers and acquisitions, project development, and asset finance covering a wide range of industries and regions, including developed and emerging markets (Latin America and Africa). He also advises clients concerning a broad range of international risk management issues (CFIUS, anticorruption, sanctions, export controls, and trade) and has been involved in internal investigations and enforcement cases in this area. Valenstein co-chairs his firm’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and sustainable business and Cuba initiatives and is an active participant in the firm’s renewable energy and responsible labor working groups. He recently led his firm’s Boston office corporate and business transactions practice. In addition to his international transactional and compliance practice, for more than 25 years Valenstein has provided legal assistance to microfinance institutions, public charities, private foundations, social enterprises and entrepreneurs, impact investment venture capital funds, and other impact investors. His work includes setting up various impact funds, including the Habitat MicroBuild and Shelter Venture Funds, the Ujima Fund, and the Boston Impact Initiative Fund, as well as representing Jewish Vocational Services on the third Massachusetts pay-for-success (social bond) contract. He also works as an adjunct supervising attorney within the International Transactions Clinics at the University of Michigan Law School and at NYU School of Law, where he supervises law students as they provide ITC clients with pro bono legal support on compliance and other corporate and transactional matters. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Michigan Ross School of Business Social Venture Fund and International Investment Fund and the NUImpact Fund. Valenstein is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and is admitted to the Bars of Massachusetts, New York and the District of Columbia. He is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and conversant in French and Italian.