By MARTHA DYE December 2, 2025 Donors, humanitarian assistance actors, and other aid organizations have long struggled to fund operations in remote, underdeveloped, and conflict-affected regions. In some places, basic banking services are absent. In others, sweeping sanctions regimes and bank “de-risking” practices complicate cross-border transfers and block perfectly legitimate transactions. These problems are intensifying in today’s environment, where sanctions, tariffs, an

November 20, 2025 If you are still receiving U.S. foreign assistance, either as a prime awardee or a sub-awardee, you should be aware of the broad new policy restrictions expected to apply to all  non-military foreign assistance by the end of this calendar year. The Mexico City Policy, first introduced by President Reagan in 1984 at a UN conference in Mexico City, expanded on the legal bars on foreign NGOs receiving certain U.S. global health funds from performing or promotin

Image source POLITICO recently featured Mission Driven Counsel LLP  in its 'West Wing Playbook' as a key boutique firm launched by former federal attorneys responding to the Trump administration’s overhaul of the U.S. government. The article, “Former DOJ Lawyers Switch Sides,”  highlights MDC’s founding by six former USAID lawyers and its mission to help organizations and governments sustain international development and humanitarian programs the administration has sought to

Law360 Feature: Six USAID Attorneys Are Latest Ex-Feds To Launch Own Firm By Jack Rodgers | September 3, 2025 https://www.law360.com/pulse/dc-pulse/articles/2383705/six-usaid-attys-are-latest-ex-feds-to-launch-own-firm

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