JUST IN: Alston & Bird partners Brian Boone and Ted Kang have acknowledged representation of "Country A" in the grand jury dispute, through an unsealed motion at the DC Circuit. / Earlier story from me: buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg… 
And, yes, as someone noted, A&B do regularly in their filings — at SCOTUS as well — just refer to the subpoenaed corporation, wholly owned by a foreign country, as “Country A.”
This seems to me to be a pretty transparent attempt to argue, through the language they choose, that the company is inseparable from the country (as part of their Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act argument).
Continuing a thread, we also learned definitively yesterday, in a different filing, in a different court, that it ~is~ the special counsel’s office fighting the foreign country-owned company in the grand jury dispute.
https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1091565859552878592?s=21
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