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Cross-Border Transactions Jurisdiction

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Cross-Border Collaboration Success: Five Top Strategies

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In the United States, we drive on the right side of the road. In Singapore, cars drive on the left. Mexico, meanwhile, has its own road signs and speed limits, which sometimes are viewed as suggestions....more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Confirming a Negative: CFTC Staff Issue an Advisory Clarifying When Foreign-Organized Entities Are Trading and Brokering Digital...

Derivatives market participants and exchanges can breathe a little easier now that Staff of the Market Participants Division and the Division of Market Oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or...more

Carey Olsen

Fraud, Asset Tracing and Recovery - Bermuda (Commercial Dispute Resolution, CDR)

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This guide explores the latest legislative, regulatory and enforcement developments in Bermuda and provides expert analysis on industry-wide topics including the local legal framework, the main stages of a fraud case,...more

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Fraud, Asset Tracing and Recovery 2025 - British Virgin Islands (Commercial Dispute Resolution, CDR)

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This guide explores the latest legislative, regulatory and enforcement developments in the British Virgin Islands and provides expert analysis on industry-wide topics including the local legal framework, the main stages of a...more

Jones Day

CFTC Divisions Interpret "U.S. Person" Definition and U.S. Location Versus Foreign Location

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A 2024 CFTC enforcement action settlement that may have introduced a new test for when the Commodity Exchange Act and the agency's regulations apply on a cross-border basis concerned then-CFTC Commissioner and now Acting CFTC...more

JAMS

California’s Global Rise: Insights From International Arbitration Week

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How California is shaping the future of cross-border dispute resolution and bridging legal traditions - During California International Arbitration Week (CIAW), JAMS and other leading arbitration institutions from around...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Chapter 15 Ruling by New York Bankruptcy Court Recognizes Debtor's "Synthetic" Restructuring

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Judge Michael Wiles of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York issued a decision earlier this year that had the effect of recognizing under Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code an English Scheme of...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Cross-border Dialogue Between Hong Kong And Mainland China on Insolvency Law

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In January 2025 in Beijing, a delegation of INSOL members led by Andrew Koo (INSOL Fellow) and John Lees (INSOL Past President) together with Hong Kong barrister Michael Lok, Alexander Tang (INSOL Fellow), and Howard Lam...more

A&O Shearman

CJEU imposes limits on the validity of asymmetric EU jurisdiction clauses

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In a decision that may cause some concern, the CJEU has held that asymmetric EU jurisdiction clauses are only valid under EU law if they designate with sufficient precision the alternative jurisdictions in which proceedings...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

New Court Ruling Clarifies Legal Boundaries for Offering of Foreign Investments in Israel

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The Tel Aviv District Court handed down an important ruling recently regulating the activities of entities distributing alternative investments in Israel. In many instances, the distribution activities are accompanied by...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Know Thy Neighbor as Thyself: CFIUS Considerations in Commercial Real Estate Transactions

While many venture capitalists and private equity sponsors are aware the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) has authority to review inbound investments in certain sensitive U.S. industries, many...more

McDermott Will & Emery

International News: Spotlight on Foreign Investment

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In this dynamic global landscape, investors have always been required to make savvy, smart choices. This requires navigating through the intricate web of bilateral treaty protection, exploring the vital role these agreements...more

Kilpatrick

6 Key Takeaways - Cross Border Litigation - United States & Mexico: Analysis of Jurisdiction and Choice of Forum Clauses

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Evan Nadel, a partner at Kilpatrick Townsend, recently joined Juan Luis Blanco Montoya, a partner at Müggenburg, Gorches y Peñalosa, to present a webinar addressing “Cross Border Litigation – United States & Mexico: Analysis...more

Lighthouse

Navigating Cross-Border eDiscovery Issues in the Wake of a U.S. Adequacy Determination

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At Lighthouse our teams have the benefit of working across numerous clients, cases, and jurisdictions. As a result, we are building deep institutional knowledge across many aspects of eDiscovery that may be more difficult for...more

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Design and Execution of a Cross-border Deal

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Efficiently executing a cross-border transaction requires experience, pragmatism and a specialized skill set. We have closed transactions in more than 75 countries for buyers and sellers across the full spectrum of...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States: Key Questions Answered

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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

K&L Gates LLP

All Business is Global: The Benefits of International Arbitration

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Introduction - Whether you have a supplier or manufacturer in Asia or distributors in the European Union or South America, all successful product manufacturers do business globally....more

Morgan Lewis

Revisiting CFIUS Jurisdiction Over Real Estate Transactions

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Concerns are growing over the national security impact of real estate purchases by foreign persons, only a small portion of which are reviewed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). These...more

White & Case LLP

FTC Announces Annual Changes to HSR Thresholds (2022)

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On January 21, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the annual changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act notification thresholds. The FTC is required by law to revise the jurisdictional thresholds annually,...more

BCLP

Funds held in Lebanon: UK consumer laws may help release them

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The financial and humanitarian crisis in Lebanon continues to hit the headlines. Our commercial disputes team has been assisting English domiciled families with funds held in Lebanese banks to take expedited legal steps in...more

A&O Shearman

Covid–19 coronavirus update: global application of foreign investment control rules (updated 13 November 2020)

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The table below sets out an overview, based on our current awareness of the position as regards foreign investment control, of the different approaches being taken by authorities around the world in response to the Covid-19...more

Jackson Walker

Exceptions to Coverage for “Excluded” Foreign Investors and States and Investment Funds From the Expanded CFIUS Jurisidiction

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As discussed in the initial article on the new CFIUS regulations, there are two important exceptions from coverage that need to be evaluated in determining what, if any, steps need to be taken to ensure compliance with the...more

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CFIUS Begins Review Process for Real Estate Transactions by a Foreign Investor

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Growing concern about foreign surveillance and intelligence gathering led Congress to provide CFIUS with authority to review real estate transactions by foreign parties when it passed FIRRMA... Prior to FIRRMA, CFIUS began to...more

Jackson Walker

New Rules Expand CFIUS Jurisdiction Over Foreign Investment in U.S. Businesses and Real Estate

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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is an interagency committee that reviews mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers by foreign persons of U.S. companies and assets that have the potential to pose...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

CFIUS finalizes expanded jurisdiction over foreign transactions in U.S. real estate

On January 17, 2020, the U.S. Treasury Department published final rules in the Federal Register implementing the Foreign Risk Review Modernization Act (“FIRRMA”), one of which implements FIRRMA’s provisions regarding foreign...more

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