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[Webcast Transcript] CFIUS Reviews: Strategies for Ensuring Compliance and Strategizing on Foreign Investments

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Editor’s Note: During a recent HaystackID webcast, expert panelists explored the role of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) in protecting sensitive technologies, classified contracts, and other...more

Oberheiden P.C.

National Security in the Age of Blockchain

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Blockchain presents unprecedented challenges around national security. This is true not only for the federal government, but also for businesses in the private sector. From cross-border transactions involving cryptocurrency...more

Torres Trade Law, PLLC

Amid TikTok Tensions, CFIUS Signals Increased Enforcement and Other Updates

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MENU InsightsAmid TikTok Tensions, CFIUS Signals Increased Enforcement and Other UpdatesBy: Derrick Kyle, Senior AssociateDate: 04/25/2023As TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew was facing (often contentious) questions from members of...more

K2 Integrity

FAQs on CFIUS and FIRRMA

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What is CFIUS? The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is an interagency committee charged with reviewing transactions involving foreign investment in the U.S. and certain real estate transactions for...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Switzerland: New Laws on Financial Services

• Following the 2008 crisis, Switzerland launched a legislative project to create uniform competitive conditions for financial intermediaries and improve client protection. • Swiss Parliament adopted the FinSA on 15 June...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

CFIUS: Inadvertent “Foreign Person” Status

Hundreds of American companies may have inadvertently become “foreign persons” for CFIUS purposes, at risk of being caught up in the Trump Administration’s restrictions on foreign investment. Many people know that the...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Congress to Expand Scope of Foreign Investments and Transactions Needing CFIUS Review

On May 22, the Senate Banking Committee and House Financial Services Committee are each expected to consider and approve similar but not identical pieces of legislation to modernize the jurisdiction and operation of the...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Trump Administration’s Clashes with China on Trade and Investment Demonstrate Importance of Vetting International Trade and...

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If private equity and other investors were not aware of the power of the secretive Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS, or the Committee), its decision to reach out and quash the potential...more

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CFIUS: Evolution Yields to Revolution

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While 2017 was an evolutionary year for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS"), 2018 portends to be a revolutionary year. A number of factors, including a new President, growing concerns over...more

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CFIUS Reconstructed: The Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2017

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The proposed Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act would bring substantial changes to CFIUS review. Key Points: ..FIRRMA could speed review of certain transactions. ..It would provide for increased...more

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Sweeping Implications for CFIUS Reform: Bipartisan FIRRMA Legislation Gains Traction

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As President Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on November 9 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, he surprised many by giving China "great credit" for "taking advantage of" the United States on key...more

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President Prohibits Chinese Investment in U.S. Semiconductor Company Following Recommendation from CFIUS

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On September 13, 2017, President Trump issued an Executive Order citing unresolved national security concerns in prohibiting the $1.3 billion acquisition of a publicly traded semiconductor manufacturer by a group of investors...more

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Even Merging Parties Found Largely Overseas May be Subject to the Broad Reach of CFIUS Jurisdiction

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According to a press release issued on November 21, 2016, the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS) refused to approve the proposed $710 million acquisition of technology company Aixtron GE of Germany...more

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CFIUS Releases Annual Report to Congress

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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) was established decades ago to identify and recommend responses to threats to US national security posed by acquisitions by non-US entities of controlling...more

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CFIUS Annual Report Shows Increase in Notified Transactions in 2011

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 the calendar year 2011. Most notably, the...more

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M&A in United States: What Chinese Companies Need to Know about Exon-Florio Review in the Clean Technology and Other Business...

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China’s investments in the United States have increased rapidly and will continue to grow in order to acquire market channels, advanced technology and other related assets. The clean technology business sector has become very...more

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