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CFIUS Notices To Become Subject To First-Ever Filing Fees

On March 4, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued a proposed rule to establish–for the first time–filing fees for parties submitting jointly voluntary notices to the Committee on Foreign Investment in...more

Foreign Investment 2020 (Part 5): Final CFIUS Rules Announced

The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) has released final regulations to implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA), expanding the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in...more

DOJ Clarifies Incentives for Voluntary Self-Disclosures of Export Control and Sanctions Violations

On December 13, 2019, the Department of Justice’s National Security Division (“NSD”) announced a revised policy to encourage voluntary self-disclosures (“VSDs”) of criminal violations of export control and sanctions laws. The...more

Congress Pulls the Trigger on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 and TurkStream Pipeline Projects

As it nears the end of the calendar and legislative year, Congress is preparing to take long-awaited action to kill Russia’s Nord Stream 2 and TurkStream natural gas pipeline projects – months before Nord Stream 2’s...more

Foreign Investment 2020 (Part Two): Proposed Regulations Will Expand CFIUS's Review of Real Estate Transactions and Bring More...

On September 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of the Treasury ("Treasury") published in the United States Federal Register the proposed regulations developed by the United States Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS) to...more

Foreign Investment 2020 (Part 4): Who’s In, Who’s Out, and Why It Matters

This is the fourth in our multipart series of alerts addressing proposed regulations published in the Federal Register on September 24, 2019, for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to implement...more

Trump Reverses Course on Turkey

On October 23, 2019, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced it was removing three Turkish government ministers and two Turkish government ministries from its list of Specially Designated...more

Trump on Turkey: Sanctions on a NATO Ally Today, With Escalation or Removal Possible Tomorrow

On October 14, President Trump issued an Executive order (“E.O.”) imposing sanctions on Turkey in response to Turkey’s military offensive in northern Syria. New E.O. 13894 authorizes the U.S. Departments of State and the...more

Foreign Investment 2020 (Part 3): CFIUS Spotlight on “TID” U.S. Businesses

This is the third in our multipart series of alerts addressing proposed regulations published in the Federal Register on September 24, 2019, for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to implement...more

Commerce Adds 28 Chinese Organizations to the Entity List for Associations with Human Rights Violations and Abuses

The U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) has added 28 Chinese organizations to the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Entity List, a move that effectively cuts off these entities from directly or indirectly acquiring...more

Foreign Investment 2020 (Part 1): Key Takeaways from the “Modernized” CFIUS Regulations (Chinese Edition)

After more than a year of anticipation, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) has released proposed regulations to implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA). These proposed regulations...more

Foreign Investment 2020 (Part 2): Proposed Regulations Would Expand CFIUS Review of Real Estate Transactions, Provide More...

This is the second in our multipart series of alerts addressing proposed regulations published in the Federal Register on September 24, 2019, for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to implement...more

Foreign Investment 2020 (Part 1): Key Takeaways from the “Modernized” CFIUS Regulations

After more than a year of anticipation, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) has released proposed regulations to implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA). These proposed regulations...more

Terrorism Sanctions Go Secondary

As part of the 18th anniversary of the September 11 attacks earlier this month, the Trump Administration effectively declared the old adage that “one person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter” does not apply with...more

Not Quite Cuba (Yet): OFAC Blocks The Venezuelan Government’s Property

Hot on the heels of the “Saturday Surprise,” the Trump Administration initiated “Monday Madness” earlier this week when the President issued new Executive Order (E.O.) 13884 blocking any property and interests in property of...more

TGIF? No, CBW: U.S. Government Imposes Narrow Financing Restrictions and Other Sanctions on Russia

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has a well-earned reputation in the sanctions bar for ruining weekends. The agency responsible for implementing and enforcing U.S. economic sanctions has...more

OFAC’s Framework for Sanctions Compliance and its Impact on Recent Enforcement Cases

On May 2, 2019, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) published its first-ever Framework for OFAC Compliance Commitments (“Framework”), detailing the essential components of a sanctions...more

For Russia, Sanctions Are Coming

Back in February, we told you about the Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act, or “DASKA,” a bipartisan effort to impose new sanctions on Russia. Interest in action against the Kremlin has only increased...more

Commerce Issues Narrow License for Certain Transactions with Huawei

An Attempt to Limit the Strain on the Telecom Sector, but Broad Prohibition on Exports Remains - The Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a 90-day temporary general licenseexempting a set...more

The United States Imposes Additional Secondary Sanctions on Iran as Geopolitical Tensions Flare

With tensions rising in the Persian Gulf, and Iran on the brink of pulling out of portions of the Iran nuclear deal, President Trump issued new Executive Order 13871 last Wednesday, May 8, 2019, imposing sanctions on Iran’s...more

The CLOUD Act One Year Later: DOJ White Paper Aims to Promote Greater Understanding of the Act's Purpose and Impact

Since it was enacted in March 2018, the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) has been controversial with privacy advocates in the United States and the subject of sustained criticism by the European...more

CFIUS Means Business, Unwinding Non-Notified Transactions and Penalizing Non-Compliance with Mitigation Agreements

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has proven in recent weeks that it is an increasingly powerful force that foreign investors and U.S. businesses alike ignore at their peril. While many paid...more

OFAC Sanctions Venezuela’s National Development Bank

On a bizarre day for sanctions that saw President Trump seemingly take action related to North Korea via tweet – revoke recent measures? scuttle pending ones? – the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control...more

DOJ Signals Once More that FARA Is an Enforcement Priority

In another indication of the U.S. Department of Justice’s increased focus on the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), Assistant Attorney General John Demers announced that the Department is overhauling its FARA enforcement...more

OFAC Has Been Talking About Compliance Through Enforcement - Have You Been Listening? UPDATE

UPDATE: Two days after we issued our Top 20 sanctions compliance lessons from recent OFAC enforcement cases, OFAC issued an unprecedented enforcement one-two punch. On February 7, 2019, OFAC settled an enforcement case with...more

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