On October 28, 2024, the US Department of the Treasury issued final regulations governing certain outbound investments in the semiconductor, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors of the People’s Republic...more
11/7/2024
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After months of speculation, the US government took steps to regulate outbound investment in specific foreign industries of concern. President Biden on August 9, 2023, issued Executive Order 14105 directing the Department of...more
8/16/2023
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On September 15, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a final rule modifying the mandatory filing requirements associated with reviews conducted by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)...more
9/23/2020
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On May 20, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a proposed rule modifying the mandatory filing requirements associated with certain foreign investments in U.S. businesses that deal with “critical technologies.”...more
On April 27, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury published an interim rule requiring the payment of a filing fee to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) in connection with CFIUS’s review of...more
On September 17, 2019, the U.S. Department of the Treasury unveiled proposed regulations that would expand the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to cover certain real estate...more
On Wednesday, October 10, 2018, the Department of the Treasury exercised its authority under the recently passed Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA) to implement a Pilot Program that expands the...more