On April 15, 2021, President Biden signed a new executive order, Blocking Property with Respect to Specified Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian Federation, escalating US sanctions against the Russian...more
On December 28, 2020, the Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) published awaited guidance on the implementation of Executive Order (EO) 13959, “Executive Order on Addressing the Threat from...more
The past two weeks have seen two major developments in relation to the screening of foreign direct investment in the European Union (“EU”) for national security or public order reasons. First, on December 10, 2018, the EU...more
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On August 1, 2018, the US Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a Federal Register notice stating that the US government had identified 44 Chinese companies as acting contrary to US national...more