Episode 337 -- Nicolas Garcia, GC at Orica, on Compliance Trends and Challenges in Latin America
Understanding FOCI Mitigation
Scaling Success: Hanley Energy’s Journey From Ireland to the U.S.
Legal Alert | Japan is Primed for Increased Foreign Direct Investment
Ask a CFIUS Expert: Is Crypto Spying on Us?
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - What Foreign Investors Need to Know About U.S. Independent Contractor Laws
Hot Topics in International Trade-Braumiller Law Group-FDI Into Mexico from China
Welcome to “Lowenstein Africa Presents: Venture Voices”
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 13: Tips and Tricks for Foreign Investors Employing U.S. Personnel
Legal Challenges Part 1 – Setting Up Your Startup for Success
Wiley's 10 Key Trade Developments: Outbound Investments and CFIUS Review
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business - How Foreign Companies Can Protect Their IP and Brand in the U.S.
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business - Navigating Business Etiquette and Intercultural Communications Around the Globe
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business - Privacy & Cybersecurity Considerations for Non-U.S. Companies
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business — Episode 7: Trans-Pacific Business: Australia and the U.S. - Part 2
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business — Episode 7: Trans-Pacific Business: Australia and the U.S. - Part 1
The Now and Next in International Trade: 5 Fast Facts About CFIUS – a National Security Agency You Should Know
Contratación para el Desarrollo de Infraestructura del Agua
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business - Enterprise Ireland and U.S. Market Entry
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business - Economic Incentives for Foreign Companies Entering the U.S.
The Slovak FDI regime applies from 1 March 2023. What are the first impressions? The FDI Act dramatically expands the powers of certain Slovak authorities to scrutinise investments from the perspective of national security...more
M&A transactions involving financial services providers—including tech-based providers or “fintechs”—raise a host of unique questions based on the types of services they provide, which are often highly regulated and may...more
Key Points - - This application was brought in the wake of sanctions imposed by the United Kingdom, United States and European Union in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and involved a complex assessment of...more
Southeast Asia is at the front line of the climate change crisis, with the region’s significant low-lying populations particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels and increasingly regular extreme weather events...more
The FCA has announced that Sberbank CIB (UK) Limited, the U.K. arm of Sberbank's corporate and investment banking division, has entered special administration. The firm has found itself unable to make payments due to the...more
New “priority list” for foreign investment The Indonesian government has issued Presidential Regulation No. 10 of 2021 (the “Regulation”) at the end of February, following the passage of its job creation law last year...more
A decision rendered on Aug. 20, 2020, by an investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) tribunal in the Portigon AG v. Kingdom of Spain arbitration (ICSID Case No. ARB/17/15) is welcome news for investment funds and banks active...more
In This Issue. The ongoing global outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to grow in scale and scope, creating public health and humanitarian challenges worldwide. Global economies are also being impacted. Federal...more
Banks, builders, developers and all those active in commercial real estate, particularly in Maryland, D.C., and Virginia, should be closely following proposed new Treasury Department rules governing foreign investment in real...more
The Situation: In the last years the Italian legislature reformed the Italian securitization law to foster investments in NPLs/UTPs by Italian and foreign professional investors. A recently approved law decree provides for...more
• Mexico recently voted for a new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in the biggest – and likely the most important – election in the country's history, electing the first left-wing candidate in Mexico. • While it is...more
China announced new policies to further open its financial sector to foreign investors in November 2017, and has recently updated its timetable to implement these policies. On April 10, 2018, President Xi Jinping made a...more
As we near the holy month of Ramadan and the summer months, the Qatari market (as is the trend each year) enters into a quiet period until the later part of the year. Yet, ahead of the quiet period, a number of major...more
• Companies that operate globally face substantial risks associated with activities funded by multilateral development banks (MDBs). • Several recent debarment actions by the World Bank highlight those risks. • To...more
The Treachery of Images - Most people are familiar with the famous painting by René Magritte called "The Treachery of Images" (1928). The picture shows a pipe and below it the caption "This is not a pipe." In Africa,...more
Breakingviews is raising an eyebrow at the news from yesterday about Broadcom’s unsolicited $105 billion offer for Qualcomm [the largest-ever proposed tech deal], especially in light of the “mountain of debt” Broadcom would...more
The Situation: The UK government is introducing new protectionist measures concerning acquisitions of businesses operating in the United Kingdom. The Impact: The government intends to expand the scope of acquisition...more
As the general conformance period for banking entities to comply fully with Section 13 of the U.S. Bank Holding Company Act (Volcker Rule) and its implementing regulations (Volcker Regulations) ended on July 21, 2017, two...more
Breakingviews suggests that the devil is definitely in the details in Sempra Energy’s apparent winning bid for Oncor. Control of the company, for example, isn’t as simple as it might seem....more
At the end of last week, the Fed and the other banking agencies issued an interpretation that applied to investments in certain foreign funds by foreign banking organizations that are subject to the Volcker rule. Such banks...more
A collection of corporate heavy hitters are betting big on the blockchain technology behind bitcoin rival Ethereum to build a computing system to track data and financial contracts. The project is seen by some as a way to...more
Article Highlights: - Non-U.S. banks can do business with Iran and continue their relationships with U.S. banks. - Non-U.S. companies may use proceeds from Iran transactions more freely, including in the United...more
How foreign private equity sponsors and their lenders are finding solutions to local law structuring issues - Leveraged finance acquisitions have existed in the Israeli market for many years. However, for a variety of...more
IN THE SPOTLIGHT - - SEC Sanctions Unregistered EB-5 Investments Broker SECURITIES - - FINRA to Assess Member Firms’ Culture - SEC Seeks Fund Responses to Distribution-In-Guise Guidance ...more
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“Federal Reserve”), consistent with its previously announced intention, extended the conformance period with respect to investments in and relationships with covered funds...more