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Key Points from the 2023 CFIUS Annual Report

On July 23, 2024, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the “Committee”) released its Annual Report to Congress covering calendar year 2023. In a year that featured lower deal volume, CFIUS...more

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EU Bans Products Made Using Forced Labour – What Should Companies Expect?

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On March 5, 2024, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union reached a "political agreement" on a Regulation prohibiting products made with forced labour ("the EU Forced Labour Regulation" or "the EUFLR")...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

OFAC Year in Review 2023 – Part 1

2023 was another record year for U.S. sanctions and the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Most prominently, OFAC continued to impose significant additional sanctions on Russia in...more

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White House Releases National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan

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On July 13, 2023, the White House issued the first iteration of its National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan (the “Implementation Plan”), which will be updated annually. The two overarching goals of the...more

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China Launches Cybersecurity Review Against Micron

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The Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) in a brief statement on March 31, 2023 stated that it has launched a cybersecurity review of Micron’s products sold in China pursuant to the National Security Law (2015),...more

King & Spalding

Bank Failures May Raise CFIUS Issues

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Companies need to be aware of filing requirements before taking foreign money - On March 14, 2023, after a week of three bank failures that marked the largest such crisis since 2008, policymakers continued seeking private...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Key Takeaways from the National Cybersecurity Strategy

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On March 3, 2023, the White House released the National Cybersecurity Strategy. The White House described this as the blueprint for a long-term effort by the Biden administration in cooperation with Congress and the private...more

Wiley Rein LLP

White House Pivots on Cyber: Voluntary Compliance Carrots Are Being Replaced By Big Regulatory Sticks

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The White House released the long-anticipated National Cybersecurity Strategy on March 2, 2023 setting out five (5) pillars articulating key themes and Administration priorities. Coming more than two years into the Biden...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

2022 Hindsight: Breach Notification Year in Review

While new comprehensive state privacy laws took most of the headlines this year, security threats and incident response remain key risk factors for privacy compliance programs and the subject of important legal developments....more

Polsinelli

For OT Cybersecurity, Extra Time is Running Out

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Operational technology (OT) is hardware and software that detects or causes a change, through the direct monitoring and/or control of industrial equipment, assets, processes and events. By design, OT underpins many critical...more

Morgan Lewis

Biden Issues CFIUS Executive Order: What Has Changed and What Remains the Same

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President Joseph Biden’s recently issued Executive Order provides guidance related to the US national security foreign direct investment review process administered by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States....more

Holland & Knight LLP

CFIUS 2021 Annual Report: Considerations for Businesses

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury, in its role as chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), released the public version of its Annual Report to Congress for Calendar Year 2021 (Annual...more

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EU Readies New Regulation of Foreign Subsidies That "Distort the EU Market"

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Overview of the FSR - The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ("TFEU") prohibits any form of public financial support selectively granted to businesses that distorts competition, absent an exception. The EU's...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Ransomware Attacks Case Studies Provide Rare Learning Opportunities

Ransomware attacks have become headline news in the mainstream media, and a hot topic not only on this blog but in government circles. And with good reason as the United States suffered a staggering 421.5 million ransomware...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act Becomes Law

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On March 15, 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA), which increased funding for the federal Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Agency (CISA) and...more

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China Issues Revised Measures on Cybersecurity Review Over Network Operators

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In response to recent data security concerns arising from overseas listings of Chinese internet companies operating in the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC”), the Cyberspace Administration of China (the “CAC”) has issued...more

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The UK's National Security and Investment Act Now Fully in Force

The United Kingdom's National Security and Investment Act (the NSI Act) is now fully in force. First proposed in 2016, the NSI Act creates a stand-alone regime that authorizes the UK government to consider and address the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

New Zero-Day Vulnerability for Log4j is the Next Cybersecurity Nightmare

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On December 10, 2021, multiple media outlets, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administration (CISA), and the director of cybersecurity at the National Security Agency (NSA) began alerting to a significant...more

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Task Force Signals Flexibility On Contractor Vaccination Mandate In New FAQs

Federal government contractors and subcontractors have been scrambling for weeks to try to digest and implement the COVID-19 safety measures issued by the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (the “Task Force”) in the wake of...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Richmond Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - December 10th, Richmond, VA

Our one-day Regional Compliance Conferences provide attendees with a forum to interact with local compliance professionals, share information about your compliance successes and challenges, and create educational...more

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Ontario, Canada Announces Phased Plan to Lift Remaining Public Health and Workplace Safety Measures by March 2022

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On October 22, 2021, Ontario announced the release of its phased plan to gradually lift all remaining public health and workplace safety measures by March 2022, as set out in A Plan to Safely Reopen Ontario and Manage...more

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China Releases New Regulations on the Protection of Critical Information Infrastructure

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On August 17, 2021, China released the new regulations on the Security and Protection of Critical Information Infrastructure (CII Regulations), which became effective on September 1, 2021. Even though China started its...more

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Overview of the New Implementing Rules on Critical Information Infrastructure in China and Key Takeaways

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On 30 July 2021, the State Council promulgated the Regulations on the Security Protection of Critical Information Infrastructure (the Regulation), which took effect on 1 September 2021. This Regulation dovetails with the...more

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Guide to Federal Contractor Obligations under Recent COVID-19 Executive Orders

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The federal government’s complicated multi-pronged approach to implementing COVID-19 safeguards related to federal contractors has left many confused.  ...more

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Ontario, Canada Arbitrator Upholds Employer’s Compulsory Rapid COVID-19 Testing Policy

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In EllisDon Construction Ltd. v. Labourers’ International Union of North America, Local 183, 2021 CanLII 50159, an Arbitrator in Ontario decided that when the intrusiveness of an employer’s compulsory Rapid COVID-19 Antigen...more

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