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Oberheiden P.C.

CFIUS Compliance Tips for 2024

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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is an interagency committee that reviews foreign investments in U.S. businesses and real estate assets. The primary purpose of a CFIUS review is to examine any...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

CFIUS Unbound: Foreign Investor Deals Continue to Draw Intense National Security Scrutiny

The national security implications of corporate deals involving foreign investors continues to be a headline-grabbing topic, now more than ever as the United States engages in heated trade negotiations with China amidst...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

New CFIUS Law: Key Issues Affecting the Energy Sector

• 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

The Volkov Law Group

CFIUS Reform: An Expanded Role (Part II of II)

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Congress enacted the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA), which was intended to modernize and strengthen the CFIUS process. FIRRMA was incorporated into the National Defense Authorization Act...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

CFIUS: Inadvertent “Foreign Person” Status

Hundreds of American companies may have inadvertently become “foreign persons” for CFIUS purposes, at risk of being caught up in the Trump Administration’s restrictions on foreign investment. Many people know that the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Legislation Proposes Sweeping New Foreign Investment Review Authorities

On November 8, 2017, a bipartisan group of legislators led by U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and U.S. Rep. Robert Pittenger, R-N.C., alongside co-sponsors including U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced parallel...more

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