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U.S. Commerce Department Adds Dozens of High-Tech Chinese Companies to Entity List

On December 15, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced that it is adding 36 primarily Chinese entities, including Chinese memory chip maker Yangtze Memory Technologies and...more

New Export Control Rules Target China’s Acquisition of Semiconductor Equipment, Advanced Computing, and Supercomputer Technologies

On October 7, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced a series of long-awaited regulations – issued as an interim final rule – amending the Export Administration Regulations...more

New Executive Order Directs CFIUS to Consider Additional National Security Factors in Evaluating Covered Transactions

On September 15, 2022, President Biden signed an executive order (EO) that reaffirms longstanding U.S. open investment policy and elaborates and expands on the existing list of statutory factors that the Committee on Foreign...more

Commerce Revises Export Rules on Entity List Companies Involved in Standard-Related Activities

On September 9, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule authorizing the release of certain U.S. technology and software in the context of standards-related...more

Biden Administration Adds Economic Measures Against Russia During G7 Meeting – New Tariffs, Gold Import Restrictions, Sanctions...

On June 27, 2022, the Biden Administration announced a new round of economic measures it is imposing in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The White House made the announcement in concert with the G7 leaders’ meeting...more

New U.S. Sanctions and Export Restrictions Target Professional Services and Russia’s Media, Banking, Defense, and Industrial...

On May 8 and 9, 2022, the Biden Administration imposed new Russia-related sanctions and export restrictions, including a prohibition on the provision of certain professional services to any person located in Russia, sanctions...more

Biden Administration Increases Sanctions, Export Control Restrictions Amid Russia’s Continued Aggression in Ukraine

Over the last week, the Biden Administration announced new sanctions and export controls on Russia and “the Putin regime for its atrocities in Ukraine, including in Bucha.” These actions include full blocking sanctions on two...more

Treasury, Commerce Target Russia’s Tech Sector, Defense Industrial Base

On March 31, 2022, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on 21 entities and 13 individuals “as part of its crackdown on the Kremlin’s sanctions evasion networks and...more

Commerce Secretary Raimondo Signals Support for Outbound Investment Screening

On March 22, 2022, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo signaled the Biden Administration’s willingness to agree to outbound investment screening legislation incorporated in the America COMPETES Act and also indicated...more

Biden Administration Imposes New Round of Russia Sanctions

On March 11, 2022, the Biden administration, along with leaders of the Group of Seven (G7), announced a new round of sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, which include restrictions on exports of luxury goods...more

UPDATE: Biden Administration Imposes Broad Sanctions and Export Controls in Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine - Update...

UPDATE- The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released new export restrictions on Belarus that largely mimic those applicable to Russia, including broad licensing requirements and the addition...more

Biden Administration Imposes Broad Sanctions and Export Controls in Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

*This alert was originally published on February 25, 2022 and updated on March 4, 2022. On February 24, 2022, the Biden Administration issued another expansive round of sanctions measures and export controls related to...more

Biden Administration Imposes “First Tranche” of Sanctions in Response to Russian Actions in Ukraine

On February 22 and 23, 2022, the Biden Administration announced additional sanctions on Russia. The first group of sanctions was announced on February 22, following Russia’s recognition of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk...more

OFAC Issues Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Sanctions Regulations

On February 16, 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued “abbreviated” regulations to implement President Biden’s 2021 Executive Order (EO) barring certain investments in...more

America COMPETES Act Would Stand Up a Committee to Review Certain Outbound Investment and Offshoring Transactions

On February 4, 2022, the House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act of 2022, which is the House’s long-awaited counterpart to the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA) that passed the Senate with...more

U.S. Sanctions Individuals for ‘Destabilization Activities in Ukraine’; Is Prepared to Impose Harsher Measures

On January 20, 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s (Treasury) Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned four individuals who are acting at the direction of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to...more

CFIUS Finalizes Rule on “Excepted Foreign State” Definition and Announces Determinations Related to Australia, Canada, and New...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury), which chairs the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the Committee), recently announced several actions pertaining to its mandate under the Foreign...more

Trial Date Set for Former Trump Adviser Charged with Acting as an Agent of a Foreign Government

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has set jury selection to begin September 7, 2022, in regard to the prosecution of Thomas Barrack, a friend and former key adviser to ex-U.S. President Donald...more

FARA 2021 Year in Review

The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) continued to make headlines in 2021 as enforcement and modernization of the law remained a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) priority. DOJ maintained its focus on enforcement,...more

Justice Department Issues ANPRM to Modernize and Clarify FARA and Seeks Comments

On December 13, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) National Security Division issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) and request for public comments regarding clarification and modernization of...more

Treasury Proposes Rule to Delay CFIUS “Excepted Foreign State” Determinations

On November 15, 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) published a proposed rule that would modify the definitions of “excepted foreign state” and “excepted real estate foreign state” in its regulations...more

CFIUS Releases 2020 Annual Report

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the Committee) released a public version of its annual report to Congress for the calendar year 2020. The report covers transactions filed with the Committee...more

DOJ Investigates a Washington Consulting Firm for Potential FARA Violations

According to media reports, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating Blue Star Strategies’ work for Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings. News of the investigation is consistent with observations that the...more

United States, Allies Sanction Chinese Officials for Human Rights Abuses

On March 22, 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced new sanctions on two officials from the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in connection with human...more

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