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Export and CFIUS Implications: New Emerging Technologies Added to Export Control List

On October 5, 2020, the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released a final rule adding six recently developed or developing technologies to BIS's Export Administration Regulations' (EAR)...more

Buyer Beware: Stepped Up Enforcement and Monitoring by CFIUS

On June 9, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) announced via its Twitter account that it had launched a website dedicated to the monitoring and enforcement functions of the Committee on Foreign Investment in...more

CFIUS Serves Up Proposed Changes to Mandatory Filing Rules: Bon Appétit!

On May 21, 2020, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) published proposed rules (the Proposals) that fine-tune the recently implemented changes to the CFIUS rules. In particular, the Proposals...more

5/29/2020  /  CFIUS , Foreign Investment , Technology

Artificial Intelligence Software Controlled for Export, Including to Foreign National Employees

On January 6, 2020, the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released an interim final rule controlling the export of certain artificial intelligence software relating to geospatial imagery...more

The Life Sciences Report - Winter/Spring 2019

Venture Fundraising and Investment in Healthcare - U.S. healthcare venture fundraising reached a record $9.6 billion in 2018, continuing a four-year upward trend. This was driven by excellent returns in the sector,...more

CFIUS Past, Present, and Future: A 2018 CFIUS Carol

CFIUS Past, Present, and Future: A 2018 CFIUS Carol - The year 2018 was a turning point in the history of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). CFIUS’s change in direction in 2017 suggested that a...more

Emerging Technologies to Be Controlled for Export: Comments Due December 19, 2018

On November 19, 2018, the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released its advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) to control the export of emerging technologies. Comments on the ANPRM are...more

Five Questions to Determine If You Have a CFIUS Filing Requirement

As of November 10, 2018, foreign investors making acquisitions and equity investments into many U.S. businesses will be required to file their investments with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)...more

Three-and-a-Half CFIUS Issues Needing Immediate Attention: Why Thinking "Big Whoop" Could Lead to Big Trouble

So you've heard a lot about CFIUS reform and the changes that may result from FIRRMA, perhaps from our prior pieces. While the President just signed FIRRMA into law on August 13, you probably know that many key FIRRMA...more

CFIUS Reform Legislation: Four Early Questions Investors and Companies Need to Ask

On Tuesday, Congress released its final draft of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA)—a compromise bill which reconciles the differences between the versions previously passed by the House and Senate....more

Washington Seeks New Regulation of Technology Investments: What You Need to Know Now About the Proposed CFIUS Legislation

On November 8, 2017, a bipartisan coalition in Congress introduced the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA), which would greatly expand the reach and consequence of the Committee on Foreign Investment in...more

Latest CFIUS Annual Report Shows Start of Withdraw and Refile Trend

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) recently released the unclassified version of its annual report to Congress for transactions notified to CFIUS during calendar year 2015. While the data...more

President Trump Blocks His First CFIUS Transaction

September 13, 2017 On September 13, 2017, the White House announced On September 13, 2017, the White House announced that President Donald Trump issued an executive order blocking Lattice Semiconductor Corp.'s proposed...more

Report on U.S. Semiconductor Industry Raises Implications for PRC Investments in U.S. Companies

In January 2017, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) issued a report to then President Barack Obama titled "Ensuring Long-Term U.S. Leadership in Semiconductors."1 The report assesses the...more

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