On February 21, 2025, President Trump issued a new memorandum addressing both foreign investment into the United States and outbound investment by US persons. Without imposing immediate legal or regulatory changes, the...more
3/5/2025
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On January 16, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued a final rule (the “Final Rule”) addressing national security concerns regarding information and communications technology...more
1/22/2025
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On January 13, 2025, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an Interim Final Rule (IFR) titled “Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion.” The IFR builds on a long series of...more
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On January 16, 2025, President Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) on Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity, to further address increasing threats from nation-state actors...more
As global economic and geopolitical environments enter a new era, companies need to continuously develop and adjust their coherent global business strategies to secure and further expand business opportunities in all markets...more
1/2/2025
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On October 24, 2024, President Biden issued the first-ever National Security Memorandum (NSM) on artificial intelligence (AI), fulfilling another directive (subsection 4.8) set forth in the Administration’s Executive Order on...more
On March 1, 2024, the US Department of Commerce’s (“Commerce”) Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking1 (the “Notice”) seeking public comments on potential regulation of the...more
3/19/2024
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On July 28, 2021, President Biden signed a national security memorandum that seeks to “significantly improve” the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure systems....more