Ask a CFIUS Expert: Is Crypto Spying on Us?
Decoding the Key Management Personnel Requirements
Wiley's 10 Key Trade Developments: Outbound Investments and CFIUS Review
Wiley's 10 Key Trade Developments: Evolution of Export Controls
The Now and Next in International Trade: 5 Fast Facts About CFIUS – a National Security Agency You Should Know
Torres Talks Trade Podcast Episode 7 on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
What to Expect from the Biden Administration
A Look Ahead at the Biden Administration’s Regulatory and Enforcement Priorities
National Security Podcast: US Government Zeros in on China
Podcast: CFIUS Update: Key Takeaways from the FIRRMA Implementing Regulations
Challenges with Cross-Border Deals
Podcast: CFIUS: Recent Regulatory Developments
Facility Security Clearances for U.S. Subsidiaries of Foreign-Owned Companies
A CFIUS Roundup: Polaris Financial
After over a year of preview, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS” or the “Committee”) has finally published information on its most recent enforcement actions. The actions were announced on...more
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
Implications for CFIUS Reporting and Review - The Executive Branch, through the National Science and Technology Council and the National Security Council, committed in 2020 to identify that are potentially significant to...more
M&A activity in 2023 was subdued, as dealmakers grappled with geopolitical tensions, inflation, rising interest rates, and increasing regulatory scrutiny, against a backdrop of general economic uncertainty. Challenges in the...more
President Biden issued Executive Order (EO) 14083 on September 15, 2022, establishing five factors for reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS), and areas of heightened scrutiny for transactions...more
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is a U.S. government interagency committee with the responsibility to review foreign investments in U.S. businesses and real estate transactions for national...more
Gain critical strategies for managing reviews in the new Team Telecom environment. The American Conference Institute’s 2nd National Team Telecom Conference will take place in Washington D.C. on April 25, 2022, one day...more
Federal government lessees seeking to occupy high-security spaces in foreign-owned buildings will be required to obtain complete beneficial ownership and impose access restrictions on owners and property managers. The...more
For a whole decade, ACI’s U.S. Export & Reexport Compliance for Canadian Operations conference continues to stand apart as the only practical, comprehensive event of its kind for the export compliance community in Canada. ...more
TikTok is one of the most popular video-sharing apps in the U.S. right now, especially amongst teenagers and young adults TikTok is an app which allows users to create and share short, fun video content that generally...more
Pilot Program Mandatory Filing Requirement – Private Investment Fund Considerations - The potential for national security review of foreign investment in the U.S. has been around for 30 years since the 1988 enactment of...more
The Situation: The National Defense Authorization Act ("NDAA"), which contains the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act ("FIRRMA"), broadens the scope of foreign investments subject to scrutiny by the Committee on...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
• The Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) has issued a Final Rule to its 32 C.F.R. Part 2004 National Industrial Security Program (NISP) Directive, which is the overarching policy for federal agencies involved in...more
- MoneyGram and Ant Financial mutually terminate $1.2 billion proposed merger - CFIUS’s concerns focused on cyber and information security - Scrutiny of buyers’ information security processes is likely to increase On...more
CFIUS is expanding its reach. Where the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has generally scrutinized foreign acquisition of U.S. “critical infrastructure,” it has now signaled that it may look closely at any...more
On January 2, 2018, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) rejected Ant Financial’s plan to acquire U.S. money transfer company MoneyGram International over national security concerns. According to...more
‘Tis the season to wonder, what will 2018 bring? We may speculate on things like a private company making a moon landing or a peace accord with North Korea. We may be certain of things like well-intentioned gym memberships...more