Wiley's 10 Key Trade Developments: Outbound Investments and CFIUS Review
On October 28, 2024, the U.S. Department of Treasury (Treasury Department) published a final rule (Final Rule) setting forth the regulations implementing Executive Order 14150 of August 9, 2023 (Outbound Investment Order),...more
On January 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Final Rule on outbound investment screening became effective. The Final Rule implements Executive Order 14105 issued by former President Biden on August 9, 2023, and...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Final Rule on outbound investment screening went into effect on Jan. 2, 2025. The Final Rule establishes a much-awaited outbound investment screening regime, implementing Executive Order...more
On January 2, 2025, the US Department of the Treasury's regulations implementing Executive Order 14105 “Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern” (the...more
On October 28, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a Final Rule establishing the new Outbound Investment Security Program, set to take effect on January 2, 2025. This program, implemented under Executive Order...more
The final regulations of the Outbound Investment Security Program, issued by the United States Department of the Treasury (the Treasury Department) on October 28, 2024 (the Final Rule), will become effective on January 2,...more
Precedent-Setting Investment Restrictions – On January 2, 2025, the U.S. will start restricting foreign investments by U.S. persons in certain national security technologies. The Outbound Investment Rule and associated...more
On November 15, the U.S. Department of the Treasury published final regulations to implement its long-awaited “Outbound Investment” Security Program, which the Biden Administration originally introduced in August 2023 under...more
On 28 October, US Treasury issued new rules that restrict investment in Chinese development of semiconductors, quantum computing and AI (Covered Activity). Taking effect on 2 January 2025, the new rules are based on findings...more
On October 28, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued its final outbound investment rule, which implements Executive Order 14105, prohibiting certain outbound investments by U.S. persons in Chinese and China-related...more
On October 28, 2024, the US Department of the Treasury issued final regulations governing certain outbound investments in the semiconductor, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors of the People’s Republic...more
On October 28, 2024, the U.S. Department of Treasury released a pre-publication version of its final rule containing the outbound investment regulations. The rule arrives a little over a year after Executive Order 14105,...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury proposed regulations on June 21, 2024, that would prohibit certain outbound investments by U.S. persons in Chinese companies focused on semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum...more
Last week, the Secretary of the Treasury released a final proposed rule to implement the Biden administration’s August 2023 Executive Order on outbound investments. The proposed rule seeks to “prevent countries of concern...more
In recent years, the U.S. has pursued a whole-of-government approach to target Chinese technology and service providers in furtherance of foreign policy and national security objectives....more
On August 9, 2023, President Biden signed Executive Order 14105 addressing investments by U.S. persons in certain identified national security technologies in “Countries of Concern,” initially naming The People’s Republic of...more
The much anticipated Executive Order (the “E.O.”) on outbound investments directed at the Chinese technology sector was finally released on August 9, 2023. Citing the “unusual and extraordinary threat to national security”...more
On August 14, 2023, pursuant to a Presidential executive order issued several days earlier, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the Proposed Rulemaking) announcing a ban on...more
On August 9, 2023, President Biden issued a long-awaited Executive Order ("the EO") establishing a new Outbound Investment Program ("OIP") to prohibit certain outbound US investments to China (including Hong Kong and Macau)...more
On August 9, 2023, President Biden issued Executive Order 14105 “Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern.” The Executive Order targets certain U.S....more
Last week, President Biden issued an Executive Order outlining the long-anticipated proposed restrictions on outbound U.S. investments in entities located in China or otherwise subject to China’s jurisdiction. The Executive...more
On August 9, 2023, President Biden issued an executive order to regulate, for the first time, US outbound investments in key technologies in China that are critical to national security. The executive order directs the...more
After months of speculation, the US government took steps to regulate outbound investment in specific foreign industries of concern. President Biden on August 9, 2023, issued Executive Order 14105 directing the Department of...more
After much anticipation, on August 9, 2023, the Biden Administration released an Executive Order (E.O.) outlining how the U.S. Government will begin to regulate U.S. investments in the People’s Republic of China. This E.O.,...more
The Biden Administration issued the long-anticipated Executive Order (E.O.) on Aug. 9, 2023, requiring notification of, and in some cases prohibiting, U.S. investments in companies engaged in the semiconductors and...more