Richard Sofield, who spent the last decade overseeing the Justice Department’s participation in the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, has joined Wiley Rein as a partner in Washington.

Sofield spent nearly 25 years at Department of Defense and at Main Justice. On Saturday he formally left his post in the DOJ’s National Security Division, where his title was director of the Foreign Investment Review Staff. At Wiley, he will be part of the international trade and telecom, media and technology practices and work with the firm’s government contracts team.