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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

Congress Adds Potential U.S. Sanctions on Hong Kong to Escalating U.S.-China Tensions (Chinese Edition)

As another sign of the escalating tensions between the United States and China, in addition to the long-running trade war, China this week suspended visits to Hong Kong by the U.S. military and vowed to impose sanctions on a...more

Congress Adds Potential U.S. Sanctions on Hong Kong to Escalating U.S.-China Tensions

As another sign of the escalating tensions between the United States and China, in addition to the long-running trade war, China this week suspended visits to Hong Kong by the U.S. military and vowed to impose sanctions on a...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

Back to the Future: Helms-Burton Versus the Blocking Statutes. Who Will Prevail?

Nearly a quarter century after its passage, the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act of 1996 – commonly known as Helms-Burton, after its sponsors – was expected to revive a significant number of old disputes...more

New Rule Implementing NDAA Prohibition: U.S. Agencies Cannot Enter Contracts That Use Chinese Telecom Technology

The latest in a string of U.S. government (USG) actions restricting the use of Chinese technology in the U.S. supply chain is an interim rule issued by the Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration (GSA),...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

Chinese Telecom Companies Under Fire: Commerce Moves to Cut Off Huawei From U.S. Technology, With More Restrictions Coming

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) has added Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Huawei) and its affiliates to the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) “Entity List,” a move that effectively cuts off Huawei from directly...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

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

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

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

Last Thursday, January 31, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued its first enforcement action of 2019, a fascinating case involving false eyelashes that teaches that virtually any...more

OFAC Designates PDVSA to Initiate End Game in Venezuela

In what was perhaps an inevitable escalation, on Monday, January 28, 2019, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on Venezuelan state-owned oil and gas company Petróleos de...more

OFAC Delists Oligarch Companies Over Congressional Objections

On Sunday, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that it lifted sanctions on three entities associated with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, including the second-largest aluminum...more

CFIUS and Technology Export Control Reform: US Department of Commerce seeks comments on the list of “emerging and basic...

The US Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (ECRA) requires the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industrial Security (BIS) to develop a corresponding list of “emerging and basic technologies”. To this end, BIS issued the...more

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