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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

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Will the U.S. Ban TikTok? New Legislation That Could Impact Your Data Privacy

A new bill was introduced last week that would ban TikTok and other foreign technology. The bipartisan bill would provide the federal government with the authority to restrict or ban the Chinese-owned video app TikTok, along...more

Holland & Knight LLP

New Executive Order Creates Roadmap of Heightened CFIUS Scrutiny for Cross-Border M&A

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President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order (E.O.) on Sept. 15, 2022, clarifying and elaborating key U.S. industries and business sectors that should expect heightened regulatory scrutiny from the Committee on Foreign...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Key Takeaways from the New Proposed CFIUS Rules

On September 17, 2019, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS" or the "Committee") published proposed rules (the "Proposals"). The Proposals would significantly expand CFIUS' jurisdiction but only...more

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CFIUS Proposes New Rules Scrutinizing Foreign Investment

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On September 17, 2019, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) published two Proposed Rules to implement most of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”). CFIUS is an...more

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CFIUS 2.0: ‘Sensitive Personal Data’ in the National Security Context

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In recent years, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has taken a much stronger interest in the national security ramifications of sensitive data falling into the hands of foreign adversaries,...more

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Security Assessments for Cross-Border Personal Information Transfers

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The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) on June 13 published the draft Measures on Security Assessment of Personal Information (PI) Cross-Border Transfers (draft “Measures”) for comments due by July 13, apparently...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Grindr and PatientsLikeMe Outcomes Show Non-Cleared Transactions' Exposure to CFIUS Scrutiny, Especially When PII Is Involved

In the last three weeks, the Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has reportedly informed two Chinese companies that they must sell their stakes in two U.S. companies....more

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Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink have joined JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and a growing list of other business titans who have withdrawn from Saudi Arabia’s “Davos in the Desert” investment conference...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The CFIUS Reform Legislation—FIRRMA—Will Become Law on August 13, 2018

CFIUS will continue to have broad jurisdiction to conduct national security reviews of foreign investments that could result in foreign control of a U.S. business. When regulations implementing FIRRMA become effective within...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

US Finalizes CFIUS Reform: What It Means for Dealmakers and Foreign Investment

After significant deliberation and discussion, Congress passed and the president is expected to shortly sign the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA), the first legislation in over a decade to...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

In-fo’ a CFIUS Review: The Expanding Power of CFIUS through Data Security Scrutiny

CFIUS is expanding its reach. Where the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has generally scrutinized foreign acquisition of U.S. “critical infrastructure,” it has now signaled that it may look closely at any...more

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The Times’ tech guru—Farhad Manjoo—gets all indignant regarding the Equifax breach. Namely, if Equifax can’t handle its one job of safeguarding personal info, should it really be allowed to keep going at all now?...more

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Implementing China’s Cybersecurity Law

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China’s Cybersecurity Law was issued on November 7, 2016, by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, and it came into effect on June 1, 2017. The Cybersecurity Law marks the first comprehensive law in China...more

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Japan Legal Update - Volume 24 | April 2017

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Labor - Japan's Action Plan for the Realization of Work Style Reform - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe recently held 10 meetings of the "Council for the Realization of Work Style Reform," to discuss reforms to Japan's...more

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Internet Regulation and Data Privacy in China

China is the world’s second largest economy, with an annual growth rate of more than eight percent and a rapidly growing middle class. Foreign investment into China routinely exceeds US$100 billion a year. Businesses from all...more

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