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Dechert LLP

Russia Sanctions: Where Are We Now and What Could Be Next?

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Since February 2022, the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union have imposed unprecedented economic sanctions on Russia and various Russian entities and individuals in response to the war in Ukraine. Actions have...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Offshore Lenders Targeted by IRS Audit Campaign

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Since 2017, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Large Business and International Division (LB&I) has shifted its audit efforts to issue-based examinations, premised on strategically identified and prioritized areas of...more

Sullivan & Worcester

Latest Proposed Regulations Provide Needed Guidance on the Working Capital Safe Harbor

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Nestled within the new proposed regulations issued by the IRS on April 12 (the "Proposed Regulations") that mainly address foreign investors is needed relief for current Opportunity Zone projects....more

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Department of Treasury Releases Proposed Regulations Offering Pandemic Relief to Qualified Opportunity Zone Businesses

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On April 14, 2021, the Department of Treasury (“Treasury”) released proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) that, if adopted, would allow flexibility for qualified opportunity zone businesses (“QOZBs”) to revise or...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

2020 and Q1 2021 Developments And Annual Compliance Checklists

Summaries of recent legislative and regulatory developments with respect to: •The SEC’s Examination Priorities for 2021- •The SEC’s Focus on Digital Asset Securities- •The SEC’s New Marketing Rule... ...more

King & Spalding

CFIUS, Bankruptcy, Foreclosures, and Debt Restructuring

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Foreign Investment Reviews of Distressed Assets - As discussed in detail in our previous Client Alert, on February 13, 2020, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) issued two Final Rules...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Despite Pandemic, CFIUS Continues FIRRMA Implementation and Activities

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

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

CFIUS & Foreign Investment in Real Estate

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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is authorized to review certain transactions involving foreign investment in the United States to determine the effect of such transactions on national...more

Jones Day

Jones Day Talks: Navigating Foreign Direct Investment in Germany

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Germany has two different sets of rules for the review of foreign direct investments. The relevant ordinance, the Außenwirtschaftsverordnung, or AWV, provides for a sector-specific review process applying to the acquisition,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

New CFIUS Law: Key Issues Affecting the Energy Sector

• FIRRMA broadens the scope of a CFIUS review beyond transactions that could result in a foreign person gaining the ability to control a U.S. business. Consequently, more energy deals could be captured through expanded...more

Carlton Fields

Expect Focus - International - March 2018

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Trends Against BITS and Investor State Dispute Resolution - In my first Expect Focus International article (http://bit.ly/2G9Demu), I suggested that investors doing business outside the United States should do so in...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Funds Talk: May 2017 - Securitization Rules Offer Differing Definitions of ‘U.S. Person’

With the long-awaited U.S. rules requiring a level of risk retention in securitizations recently going into effect, an added wrinkle has been created by a slight difference in how “U.S. person” is defined in different...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Domestic Anti-Treaty-Shopping Proposals and Further Consultation Announced in Canada's Federal Budget 2014

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In the Canadian Federal Budget released on February 11, 2014, the Department of Finance signaled its intention to enact a domestic treaty-shopping rule, generally allowing the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to deny treaty...more

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