Before joining Arent Fox, Ike worked as a corporate associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Washington, DC, representing mostly private equity clients. Ike also interned at the World Bank and IMF legal departments where he analyzed legal aspects of the World Bank’s investment and funding activities and helped compile a primer on financial intelligence units to assist IMF member countries in establishing anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing infrastructures.
Before switching to law, Ike was a seasoned international banker at JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley and worked at their New York and Tokyo offices.