The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has proven in recent weeks that it is an increasingly powerful force that foreign investors and U.S. businesses alike ignore at their peril. While many paid...more
The US Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (ECRA) requires the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industrial Security (BIS) to develop a corresponding list of “emerging and basic technologies”. To this end, BIS issued the...more
The Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”), which became law on August 13, 2018, effected sweeping change to the authority and processes of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States...more
On August 13, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Foreign Investment Review Risk Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”) as part of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for 2019 (“2019 NDAA”). FIRRMA is...more