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Trump Administration Directs CFIUS to Tighten Restrictions on Investment From Certain Countries While Easing National Security...

On 21 February 2025, President Donald J. Trump signaled his administration’s approach to foreign investment policy with a presidential memorandum, “America First Investment Policy” (The Policy). Among the most significant...more

How to Successfully Transfer Your Manufacturing Plant From Mexico to the United States

President Trump’s promise to impose a new 25% tariff on goods produced in Mexico has prompted many companies to consider alternatives to their current or planned operations in Mexico. The decades following the 1994 North...more

US Treasury Department Moves Closer to Implementing Outbound Investment Restrictions Through Latest Proposed Regulations

On 21 June 2024, the Office of Investment Security of the US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued proposed regulations to implement President Biden’s August 2023 Executive Order on Addressing United States Investments...more

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States Sharpens Its Enforcement Edge: Proposed Regulatory Revisions Expand...

On 15 April 2024, the Treasury Department’s Office of Investment Security published a Proposed Rule to revise the regulations governing the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the Committee). The...more

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Sanctions Climate for Foreign Investment in Russia - Part I of II

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent revelations of alleged atrocities in territories previously controlled by Russia have had a global impact. Dozens of foreign countries (States) have imposed a wide variety of...more

New U.S. Sanctions on Russia and Belarus Impose Trade and Investment Restrictions on Luxury Goods and Russia's Energy Sector

As an update to K&L Gates’ previous alerts of 24 February and 25 February, U.S. President Joe Biden issued two executive orders (EOs) last week imposing additional sanctions against Russia. The first order, EO 14066, issued...more

Treasury Issues Final Regulations Revamping CFIUS Authority

On January 13, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) published two final rules (“Final Rules,” found here and here) that implement most of the remaining provisions of the Foreign Investment Risk Review...more

Treasury Proposes Regulations Implementing Nearly All of FIRRMA’s Provisions

On September 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) published two proposed rules (together, the “Proposed Rules”) to implement the remaining provisions of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization...more

Prominent Divestiture Orders Demonstrate CFIUS’s Focus on Access to Sensitive Personal Data as a National Security Concern

Two major actions by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) have recently come to light that underscore the significant risks of investments in U.S. businesses that have large volumes of sensitive...more

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