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The Federal Communications Commission has released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing expansive new certification and disclosure requirements regarding foreign adversary ownership or control. The proposed...more
Former President Joe Biden issued Executive Order (EO) 14105, “Executive Order on Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern” on August 9, 2023. More...more
As part of the “America First” Investment Policy Memorandum, released on February 21, the Trump administration signaled that it may increase restrictions on investments made by American university endowments relating to...more
Several of President Donald Trump’s initial actions — from an executive order instituting a new artificial intelligence (AI) policy framework, to those directing the use of the U.S. military to provide border security, the...more
U.S. investors interested in investing in advanced Chinese technology companies may now be constrained by the U.S. Government’s first-ever outbound investment rule (Final Rule) which took effect on Jan. 2, 2025. The Final...more
The Final Rule prohibits or requires notification of certain US investments in Chinese and Chinese-controlled entities involved in semiconductors, quantum information technologies, and artificial intelligence....more
Much has been written about the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”), which was enacted on January 1, 2021, and went into effect on January 1, 2024. Briefly, the CTA requires “reporting companies” to disclose beneficial...more
On June 21, 2024, the Treasury Department released long-expected proposed regulations to curtail investments by U.S. persons (including investments by U.S. limited partners in non-U.S. pooled funds) and U.S.-controlled...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) became effective on January 1. The CTA creates a new national database of companies, maintained by the US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), to...more
Singapore has joined the trend of countries exercising greater oversight over investments in domestic entities in strategically important sectors. The Significant Investments Review Act (the “Bill”), introduced on November 3,...more
Key Points - CFIUS added New Zealand to its white list of “excepted foreign states,” joining Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom in the group of countries whose investors may qualify for jurisdictional carve-outs and...more
The National Diet of Japan recently passed the Real Estate Investigation and Regulation Act, which is in line with tightening global trends in real estate regulations in order to prevent threats to national security. The...more
Despite political and economic uncertainties, markets and deal activity were resilient in 2019, and strong fundamentals remain in place heading into 2020. Companies continue to face a challenging litigation and enforcement...more
When it was enacted in August 2018, the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA) overhauled the US law governing CFIUS national security reviews for the first time in 11 years. Many of FIRRMA’s most...more
Unbeknownst to many, a wrench has been thrown into the funding plans of many U.S. startups and other growing U.S. companies by virtue of President Trump’s enactment of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of...more
Following completion of the Trilogue process, the three main EU institutions have agreed on a compromise for a new Regulation that gives the EU a largely procedural and coordinating function in connection with foreign direct...more
In this episode, Akin Gump international trade partners Tatman Savio and Christian Davis discuss the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) and how the new Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act...more
A little more than two months after the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”) was signed into law, the United States Department of the Treasury (has invoked its new authority under the FIRRMA to...more
• 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
• ECRA became law on August 13, 2018. It is the permanent statutory authority for the EAR, which is administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s BIS. The new law codifies long-standing BIS policies and does not require...more
On August 13, 2018, President Trump signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 that contains the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA), the first significant reform...more
This week, you have likely heard about FIRRMA, the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act, the law that will expand CFIUS. We have written about a number of aspects of the new law as it was being made, including the...more
CFIUS will continue to have broad jurisdiction to conduct national security reviews of foreign investments that could result in foreign control of a U.S. business. When regulations implementing FIRRMA become effective within...more
On April 6, 2018, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned a number of Russian businessmen and companies, as well as Russian government officials and two state-owned entities. The...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