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The Now and Next in International Trade: 5 Fast Facts About CFIUS – a National Security Agency You Should Know
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A Look Ahead at the Biden Administration’s Regulatory and Enforcement Priorities
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Facility Security Clearances for U.S. Subsidiaries of Foreign-Owned Companies
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This is the final in our 2025 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. Throughout 2024, enforcement of international trade laws continued to gather pace...more
Welcome to the latest edition of M&A Insights, where we bring together partners from across the A&O Shearman network to explore the themes shaping global dealmaking. The election of Donald Trump as President is expected to...more
In our biannual M&A trends report we explore the possible impact of the new U.S. administration on dealmaking, the dynamics of transatlantic M&A, private equity exits, and Mario Draghi’s proposals to reshape the European...more
The past weeks and months have brought about tremendous political change in the West, as we move toward a new U.S. administration, a new College of Commissioners in Brussels and a new Polish presidency of the Council of the...more
As geopolitical tensions ratchet higher across the globe – fueled by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, turbulent relations between China, the United States (US), and Europe, escalating conflict in the Middle East, and...more
The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently issued an interim final rule implementing licensing requirements for these emerging technology products for export to all foreign countries. See the...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Department of State have been continuously easing restrictions on export-controlled trade between the United States, United Kingdom and Australia to foster technological innovation...more
The U.S. and the U.K. are focused on common national security risks, including preventing foreign access to key emerging technologies, the integrity of the defense supply chain, protection of critical infrastructure, and...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury recently released its Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) 2023 Annual Report to Congress....more
The report shows a decline in filings, new mitigation measures and conditions, and continued emphasis on monitoring and enforcement. On July 23, 2024, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)...more
On April 24, 2024, President Joe Biden signed the 21st Century Peace Through Strength Act (Act) into law. The Act, which is part of a broader law providing supplemental aid to Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine, contains several...more
Following months of delays and intense debate in Congress, President Biden signed H.R. 815 into law on April 24, 2024, which made headlines for funding $95 billion in military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, along with...more
In an interim final rule published on April 19, 2024 (New Rule), the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amended the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to reduce licensing requirements on...more
At a time of significant geopolitical challenges, many jurisdictions are looking at their investment screening regimes to ensure that they can adequately safeguard national security and public order. Within this context,...more
The year 2023 will be remembered as a challenging one for private equity (PE), with complexities to navigate on many fronts. Traditional debt financing was expensive and scarce, expectations on valuations were tricky to...more
M&A activity in 2023 was subdued, as dealmakers grappled with geopolitical tensions, inflation, rising interest rates, and increasing regulatory scrutiny, against a backdrop of general economic uncertainty. Challenges in the...more
AI in 2024: Monitoring New Regulation and Staying in Compliance With Existing Laws Companies that develop or employ AI tools have to consider proposed AI-specific regulation as well as an array of existing IP, privacy,...more
October 24, 2023- The Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency jointly issued a final rule to modernize regulations implementing the Community Reinvestment...more
September 14, 2023- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy held a hearing entitled, "Implementing Basel III: What's the Fed's Endgame?"...more
September 13, 2023- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing entitled, "Oversight of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and Other Efforts to Strengthen National Security...more
July 31, 2023- The Department of the Treasury, as Chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), released its Annual Report to Congress for calendar year 2022....more
In a set of actions in coordination with G7 allies, US and UK export control authorities recently announced significant escalations of sanctions and export controls against Russia and Belarus. These actions indicate continued...more
Hosted by C5, the 4th European Forum on FDI Reviews and CFIUS returns for another exciting year with curated programming that will help you navigate emerging complex National Security Reviews across the UK and EU....more
As the UK’s investment screening regime starts to bed down following over a year of being in effect, we have been tracking the developments in the last quarter relevant to the operation of the regime. It has been a tumultuous...more
The highly anticipated Memorandum of Understanding on scrutiny of the Investment Security Unit (“ISU”) between the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee (“BEIS Committee”) and the ISU (the “MoU”) agreed on 14...more