The federal government sent another big signal that it’s stepping up efforts to keep cutting-edge, dual-use and military technologies out of the hands of adversarial foreign governments when it announced the launch of the...more
The US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a Final Rule adding 77 companies to the Entity List, a restricted party list that identifies foreign persons that engage in activities contrary to US...more
On September 15, 2020, the US Department of the Treasury issued a Final Rule comprising the latest regulation in an ongoing effort to reform the way the United States reviews and confronts the national security implications...more
The US Department of the Treasury has issued two final regulations implementing the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 ("FIRRMA"). The final regulations broadly expand the jurisdiction of the Committee...more
On May 15, President Donald Trump signed an executive order starting the process for banning the importation, sale and use of equipment and technology in the US as a response to potential security risks. Although this order...more
The Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security has published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking seeking public comments on a draft list of various emerging technologies that may soon be subject to...more
As discussed in a prior article in this series, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is authorized to review certain cross-border mergers, acquisitions and investment transactions and to recommend that the...more
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS" or "the Committee") has received much attention over the past several months for its role in blocking two separate Chinese acquisitions of US semiconductor...more
Last week, President Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting the acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (Lattice), a US computer chip manufacturer, by a Chinese investor. The president's order blocking the...more
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Each year, the US government releases a public version of a classified report to Congress summarizing the government's confidential review of certain foreign investments in the United States. The entity responsible for the...more