In light of recent cyberattacks targeting the federal government and United States supply chains, President Biden’s administration has released an Executive Order (the “Order”) in an attempt to modernize and enhance the...more
1/17/2025
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Foley recently cohosted a webinar with 4thly featuring a panel of legal and policy experts addressing President Biden’s New Outbound Investment Screening Program....more
9/12/2023
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Beginning on February 24, 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the U.S. Department of State imposed several successive waves of economic sanctions on Russia following the...more
3/3/2022
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Switzerland ,
UK ,
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As many organizations continue to struggle with the fallout from the July 2020 Schrems II decision from the European Court of Justice (“CJEU”), in November, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) published two pieces of...more
12/2/2020
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New Guidance ,
Personal Data ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Standard Contractual Clauses
On July 8, 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) released a Request for Information (“RFI”), requesting public comments by August 7 on Executive Order 13920 that President Trump issued on May 1, 2020, entitled:...more
7/15/2020
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New Rules Open Opportunities for Exports, Financial Services, and Travel-
On January 16, 2014, the U.S. Treasury Department issued new sanctions regulations easing the 54-year old Cuban embargo. Coming in the wake of...more
1/22/2015
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President Obama recently announced steps to ease the 54-year old embargo on Cuba and begin to restore diplomatic relations. The following frequently asked questions examine key issues from a policy and business...more
On June 3, 2013, President Obama signed a new executive order expanding U.S. extraterritorial sanctions on Iran to multinational corporations that engage in significant financial or commercial transactions with the Iranian...more
In last month’s newsletter, we discussed how developments in 2012 had considerably tightened sanctions against Iran, including through the first-ever application of sanctions to separately incorporated subsidiaries of U.S....more