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
Introduction - On 28 October 2024, the US Treasury Department issued a Final Rule implementing the Outbound Investment Program (OIP) under Executive Order 14105, which safeguards US national security by limiting investments...more
On 28 October, US Treasury issued new rules that restrict investment in Chinese development of semiconductors, quantum computing and AI (Covered Activity). Taking effect on 2 January 2025, the new rules are based on findings...more
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
6/27/2024
/ CFIUS ,
China ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Executive Orders ,
Foreign Investment ,
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) ,
Investment ,
National Security ,
Prohibited Transactions ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Supply Chain ,
U.S. Treasury
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
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the Committee) recently proposed expanding the scope of its jurisdiction to review real estate transactions to add over 200,000 square miles of land...more
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
4/20/2022
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Economic Sanctions ,
EU ,
Financial Transactions ,
Foreign Investment ,
Foreign Policy ,
Popular ,
Russia ,
SDN List ,
Trade Restrictions ,
UK ,
Ukraine
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
3/16/2022
/ Belarus ,
Biden Administration ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Energy Sector ,
Executive Orders ,
Export Administration Regulations (EAR) ,
Export Controls ,
Foreign Investment ,
Foreign Policy ,
Imports ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Trade Restrictions
Companies operating in the United States encounter numerous legal and regulatory issues arising from doing business in the world’s largest economy. Anticipating and dealing appropriately with those issues can improve markedly...more
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
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
OVERVIEW -
- Oversight of Foreign Investment & Tech Transfer
- CFIUS Reforms – FIRRMA
- Investment Strategies
FOREIGN INVESTMENT & TECH OVERSIGHT -
- The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States...more
6/27/2019
/ CFIUS ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Export Control Reform Act (ECRA) ,
Export Controls ,
Exports ,
FIRRMA ,
Foreign Investment ,
Imports ,
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) ,
National Security ,
Section 232 ,
Section 301 ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Relations ,
US Trade Policies
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