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Hot Topics in International Trade-Braumiller Law Group-FDI Into Mexico from China
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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.
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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.
During the first week of January, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), chaired by the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury), published a series of rules and notices regarding the definitions...more
The various thematic memos included below summarize the exceptional package enacted by the French State since the beginning of the lockdown (confinement) and aimed at supporting companies particularly affected by the economic...more
As has been widely reported, the U.S. federal government partially shut down at midnight on December 22, 2018. While the shutdown continues to impact numerous government agencies and related constituencies, a key shutdown for...more
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) oversees a program, known as the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program (EB-5 Program), which encourages foreign entrepreneurs to invest in commercial enterprise in the...more
Last week H.R.1625 – Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 was enacted. The Act includes a continuation of funding, until September 30, 2018, for the EB-5 Regional Center Program. ...more
Three days into the government shutdown, Senate Majority Leader McConnell (R-KY) and Senate Minority Leader Schumer (D-NY) took to the Senate floor Monday afternoon to announce an agreement to end the impasse and reopen the...more
As expected, the House and the Senate passed a Continuing Resolution (the “CR”) last week which extended the Federal budget until January 19, 2018. It is expected that the President will sign the CR. This new short-term...more
As part of the two-week spending bill that avoids a government shutdown, the Immigrant Investor Program known as EB-5 is extended unchanged through Dec. 22. Without much buzz on Capitol Hill to suggest the imminent release of...more
• The House and Senate proposed companion bills that would expand the scope of CFIUS review by broadening the definition of covered transactions to include certain minority investments and joint ventures, among other...more
The EB-5 Regional Center Program has received yet another extension, this time through September 30, 2017. The Program has been similarly extended, with no change in policy, on multiple occasions since its previously...more
On December 9, 2016, as part of federal spending legislation, the EB-5 Regional Center Program received a short-term extension through April 28, 2017. The Program has been similarly extended, with no change in policy, on...more
On September 29, 2016, as part of recently enacted federal spending legislation, the EB-5 Regional Center Program received a short-term extension through December 9, 2016. The Program has been similarly extended, with no...more
California Legislature Revises De Minimis Exemption of Finance Lenders Law - Real estate projects that utilize federal New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) financing recently received a reprieve from a state licensing...more
The U.S. Immigrant Investor Program (EB-5) has been extended through December 9, 2016, following the recent signing of a continuing resolution to fund the federal government and avoid a shutdown. The EB-5 Program provides a...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
Action Item: The nine-month extension of the EB-5 Program provides a temporary reprieve to the real estate developer and foreign investor communities while Congress and industry groups grapple with a more comprehensive...more
The Commerce Department’s BE-180 Survey of Financial Services Transactions is a mandatory benchmark survey conducted every five years and administered by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (the “BEA”). Reports are required by...more
As you may be aware, May 29, 2015 was the deadline for certain filings on Form BE-10 required by the U.S Bureau of Economic Analysis. The filings must be made by any U.S. person that had a “foreign affiliate” in 2014, which...more
When the White House recently announced that it was extending sanctions against Russia for another year, it cited a continued “unusual and extraordinary threat” from Russia’s activities in Ukraine. President Obama also...more