Elana Broitman represents clients in New York City, New York State and Washington, D.C. on government affairs, procurement, regulatory, and policy matters. She also provides specific expertise in CFIUS matters, cybersecurity and sanctions. She has wide-ranging experience in government and business.
Throughout her career, Elana has also held numerous positions within the federal government. Most recently, she served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy at the Defense Department where she was responsible for the defense industrial base and represented the Department on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Before her role at the Pentagon, Elana spent a decade in Congress, serving as Senior Adviser to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees, and prior to that as Counsel to the House International Relations Committee. Elana managed export control, sanctions, cybersecurity and defense authorization legislation and oversight. Elana had previously served in the Clinton Administration as Senior Rule of Law Advisor to the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Europe and Newly Independent States.
