Eileen Keenan

Eileen brings more than 20 years of federal government experience spanning the U.S. Departments of Justice, State and Homeland Security, with deep subject matter expertise in a wide range of national security matters including cross-border transactions, regulatory compliance, counterterrorism investigations, financial crimes, export controls, sanctions, immigration and international law enforcement cooperation.

At Kroll, Eileen advises clients on matters related to national security regulatory regimes, including the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and Team Telecom, the implementation of resulting risk mitigation agreements between the U.S. government and global corporations and navigating relationships with government regulators. Her role also involves designing data protection and cybersecurity compliance frameworks, anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism regulatory frameworks and advising on cross-border investigations and multijurisdictional coordination with foreign governments. Eileen is also focused on building Kroll's client relationships across the Raleigh-Durham Research Triangle market.

Prior to joining Kroll, Eileen spent two decades in federal government service across three Executive Branch agencies. She served for six years as Attorney Advisor in the Department of Justice's National Security Division, Foreign Investment Review Section, conducting national security reviews of cross-border transactions and driving the enforcement of national security agreements. In this role, Eileen led the investigation and enforcement action resulting in the largest CFIUS penalty in history, for which she received the Attorney General's Award for Excellence in National Security in 2025. She also architected the foundational process for Team Telecom's review of existing Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licenses, identifying risks and material noncompliance across legacy telecommunications cases, earning the Assistant Attorney General's Award for Outstanding New Initiative in 2023.

Eileen previously served as Resident Legal Advisor at the U.S. Embassy in Asunción, Paraguay, with the Department of Justice’s Office of Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training, advising foreign officials on counterterrorism and financial crimes legislation and coordinating complex extraditions and cross-border criminal prosecutions. She had earlier served as a foreign-posted Political and Economic Officer with the State Department. In that role, Eileen coordinated a multiagency investigation into the illegal diversion of U.S. firearms by transnational criminal organizations along the Brazil-Paraguay border, work recognized with the State Department's Superior Honor Award. She also managed a two million dollar international law enforcement program for foreign justice sector partners.

Before this, Eileen served at DHS's Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Office of the Chief Counsel in San Francisco, rising from Assistant Chief Counsel to Senior Attorney leading multi-office task forces on corporate worksite enforcement and the strategic application of federal enforcement priorities. She began her career as an Assistant State’s Attorney with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in Chicago. 

Eileen is a recurring featured presenter at the American Conference Institute's CFIUS National Conference and has regularly briefed the FCC and Washington, D.C.-based law firms on Executive Branch perspectives on compliance, mitigation and national security risk. She has also presented for the Practising Law Institute on the implementation of government-mandated third-party auditors and monitors.

Eileen holds a Juris Doctor from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she was a writer for the Public Interest Law Reporter, and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and Spanish Literature from Marquette University. She is professionally fluent in Spanish.