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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

The New UK Government, Industrial Strategy and the National Security and Investment Act

At a meeting of business leaders and global investors in London in mid-October, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer told the audience that his government would "rip up" Britain's bureaucracy in a bid to unlock the "shock and awe...more

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Election Implications for Clean Energy, Climate, Critical Minerals Programs at DOE

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The 2024 U.S. presidential election is shaping up to be one of the most uncertain and unpredictable in history. The future and overall success of the U.S. Department of Energy's once-in-a-generation clean energy investments...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights, V 8, Issue 8, August 2024

Welcome to the eighth 2024 issue of Currents - our e-newsletter focused on energy topics. Is Nuclear the Panacea to Data Center Load Growth? Per public data, after years of relatively flat load growth around the...more

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Florida Department of Commerce Issues Last Proposed Rules on High-Profile Property Law

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In May 2023, Florida became among the first states to limit select persons from "foreign countries of concern" from directly or indirectly owning, having a controlling interest in or acquiring an interest in Florida real...more

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NCSC Warns U.S. Startups and Investors of Foreign Bad Actors with Money to Spend

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Last week, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (“NCSC”), the Office of Economic Security and Emerging Technologies (“OESET”) and other coordinating government agencies issued a warning to U.S. venture...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Key Points from the 2023 CFIUS Annual Report

On July 23, 2024, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the “Committee”) released its Annual Report to Congress covering calendar year 2023. In a year that featured lower deal volume, CFIUS...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Commerce Department Bans Kaspersky Software in First ICTS Prohibition, Signals Increased Risk of Using Certain Foreign Software...

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On June 20, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued a Final Determination prohibiting the sale of certain cybersecurity products, anti-virus software, and related services to...more

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UK Critical Minerals Strategy: Lessons from the US

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Reliable supplies of critical raw materials are essential for the green transition and to ensure the competitiveness of key national industries. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in the US and the European Union’s Critical...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Charting a New Course: Mexico’s Legal and Financial Outlook for the Future

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The upcoming administration of President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico is poised to navigate a complex landscape marked by a need for national unity, fiscal prudence, economic stability, and continuity of progressive...more

K&L Gates LLP

US Treasury Department Moves Closer to Implementing Outbound Investment Restrictions Through Latest Proposed Regulations

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On 21 June 2024, the Office of Investment Security of the US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued proposed regulations to implement President Biden’s August 2023 Executive Order on Addressing United States Investments...more

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4 Key Takeaways | Solar Industry & Chinese Tariff Update

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Over the past few weeks, Thomas Allen, Kurtis Anderson, Mark J. Riedy, and Stephen Anstey have released four Legal Alerts on tariffs and threatened tariffs on the solar industry in Southeast Asia and generally imports from...more

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USTR Requests Comments on Section 301 Tariff Increases in Strategic Sectors

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A long-awaited statutory review of tariffs imposed on imports of Chinese goods under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 resulted in the Biden Administration increasing tariffs on EVs, semiconductors, solar products, steel...more

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Section 301 Update: Biden Administration to Increase Section 301 Tariffs on Chinese Steel and Aluminum, EVs, and Solar Cells

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On Tuesday, May 14, 2024, in response to the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) recommendations, the Biden Administration announced plans to add and increase Section 301 tariffs across strategic sectors such as steel and...more

Dechert LLP

The Evolving Global Foreign Direct Investment and National Security Review Landscape - May 2024

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Key Takeaways - - As FDI regimes proliferate and mature around the globe, governments are taking an ever-more expansive view of the concept of “national security” to include more than military and defense interests, which...more

Hogan Lovells

Security Snippets: Critical infrastructure is a key target of China-sponsored hackers

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Companies should review their resiliency, vendors, suppliers, and plans for partnering with the FBI in case of a cyber event, says FBI. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is positioning itself to “physically wreak havoc on...more

Nelson Hardiman, LLP

Hacking and Healing: Nation-States, Cyber Attacks, and Healthcare Law

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Modern warfare is no longer restricted to physical battlefields and professional military. Countries like North Korea and Russia have few qualms about using cyberspace to reach well beyond their physical borders to target...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

China Issues Rules to Clarify and Relax Cross-Border Data Transfer Controls

A data controller that is not a critical information infrastructure operator that cumulatively exports personal information (excluding any sensitive personal information) of less than 100,000 individuals since January 1 of...more

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China Officially Promulgates New Cross-Border Data Transfer Requirements

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The newly promulgated measures increase the threshold of data triggering security assessments and contract requirements while leaving room for Chinese authorities to heavily restrict cross-border data transfers. In...more

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Update on Florida Law Limiting Persons from "Foreign Countries of Concern"

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Florida enacted Senate Bill (SB) 264 in May 2023, creating Chapter 692, Florida Statutes (the Act), to limit select persons from "foreign countries of concern" from owning, having a controlling interest in or acquiring an...more

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Plugged In: An EV Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3

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Editor’s Note - In this edition of Plugged In, we invite you to dive into the intricate web of global supply chains and their profound implications for national security and economic resilience. This issue includes the...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

Industry Responses to the U.S. Outbound Investment Regulatory Regime

The only thing truly certain about the proposed U.S. outbound investment regulatory regime is that a lot of uncertainty remains. But industry responses garnered during the comment period may, at least partly, foretell the...more

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Congressional Investigations: A Review of Investigations Likely to Continue in 2024 and into the 119th Congress

This is the sixth in our 2024 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

OFAC Year in Review 2023 – Part 1

2023 was another record year for U.S. sanctions and the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Most prominently, OFAC continued to impose significant additional sanctions on Russia in...more

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US Trade Representative Calls For Additional Steps To Counter China’s Efforts to Dominate The Electric Vehicle Supply Chain

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In a January 4th letter to the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Ambassador Katherine Thai of the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) responded to the Committee’s concerns regarding the practices...more

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Critical Infrastructure Organizations Warned to Upgrade Systems and Software

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In one of the most clear-eyed and sobering assessments of the cyberthreat China poses to our nation’s critical infrastructure, the country’s foremost cybersecurity leaders recently testified that the Chinese Communist Party...more

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