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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) evaluates the US national security impact of acquisitions of "control" by foreign persons of US businesses. ...more
Tucked into the Consolidated Appropriations Act that President Biden signed in late December was the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022 (Filing Fee Modernization Act). The Filing Fee Modernization Act makes...more
On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022 (the MFFMA), which will modify the current structure of merger filing fees payable under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act...more
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is a U.S. government interagency committee with the responsibility to review foreign investments in U.S. businesses and real estate transactions for national...more
In late July, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) released its Annual Report for 2019, providing insight into recent CFIUS trends. This included encouraging results on CFIUS outcomes for...more
Key Takeaways - On July 28, 2020, the U.S. Treasury Department, as chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS” or the “Committee”), released the final rule to establish filing fees for CFIUS...more
Since the beginning of 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) has issued numerous regulations to implement fully the Foreign Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA) on behalf of the Committee on Foreign...more
Real estate transactions subject to Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) review, including those involving foreign participation through investment, acquisition, or management of U.S. real property or...more
This Interim Rule follows the Proposed Rule on filing fees published by the Committee on March 9, 2020...The Interim Rule also implements one of the last remaining changes to the CFIUS process initiated by the Foreign...more
Beginning on May 1, 2020, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) will require a fee for any joint voluntary notice of a “covered transaction” or “covered real estate transaction.” This requirement...more
The new filing fees can be as high as $300,000 for covered transactions valued at $750 million or more. On April 27, 2020, the US Treasury Department announced in an interim rule with request for comments that the Committee...more
In August 2018, President Trump signed into law the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (“FIRRMA”), which substantially expanded the power of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS” or...more
In this article, we discuss two notable recent developments in CFIUS reviews: First, CFIUS’s expanded jurisdiction over foreign investments in companies that receive emergency COVID-19-related DPA financing, and second, the...more
On April 27, 2020, the Department of the Treasury issued an interim rule establishing a filing fee for certain transactions filed with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”). The fees only apply to...more
When Congress passed the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA) to strengthen and expand the jurisdictional reach of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, (CFIUS) we knew that...more
As discussed in our related March 25, 2020 post, in early March 2020, the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) issued a proposed rule regarding filing fees for parties filing voluntary notices of certain transactions for...more
Effective May 1, 2020, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) will begin assessing filing fees on voluntary written notices filed under 31 C.F.R. Parts 800 and 802.1 The rule impacts investors in a...more
The January 13, 2020, regulations issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury), on behalf of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the Committee), to implement the Foreign Risk Review...more
Pursuant to an interim rule published on April 29, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) will implement fees for certain filings made on or after May 1, 2020. The fees apply to notice filings...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Interim Rule establishing filing fees for joint voluntary notices submitted to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States goes into effect 1 May 2020....more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) announced that on Friday, May 1, 2020, the first-ever filing fees will become effective for joint voluntary notices submitted to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the...more
On April 29, 2020, the US Treasury Department published an interim rule establishing fees for parties filing a formal written notice of a transaction for review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States...more
On April 27, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury published an interim rule requiring the payment of a filing fee to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) in connection with CFIUS’s review of...more
Beginning May 1, 2020, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) will require a filing fee in connection with any formal notice of a “covered transaction” or a “covered real estate transaction.” The...more
Further implementing the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA“), the U.S. Department of the Treasury recently published a proposed rule to establish filing fees for parties filing voluntary...more