Regulations ultimately will implement a new program restricting certain investments related to China-
On June 21, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Rule”)...more
7/11/2024
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CFIUS ,
Enforcement ,
Foreign Entities ,
Foreign Investment ,
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) ,
Investors ,
National Security ,
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) ,
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Proposed Rules ,
U.S. Treasury
Prohibitions targeted to prevent China’s exploitation of dual-use technology -
On August 9, 2023, President Biden signed a historic Executive Order on Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security...more
8/15/2023
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CFIUS ,
China ,
Compliance ,
Covered Transactions ,
Debt Financing ,
Executive Orders ,
Foreign Investment ,
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) ,
Joe Biden ,
National Security ,
Penalties ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Screening Procedures ,
Semiconductors ,
Technology Sector ,
U.S. Treasury
On January 10, 2023, the House of Representatives passed H.Res. 11 establishing the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (the “Select Committee”). The...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced that it reached a $5,500,000 settlement with a biomedical research institute that received NIH grant funding–the Van Andel Research Institute (VARI)–to resolve allegations...more
2/26/2020
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Enforcement Actions ,
Failure To Disclose ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Grants ,
Foreign Investment ,
Government Investigations ,
Medical Research ,
National Institute of Health (NIH) ,
Research Funding ,
Settlement
On February 13, 2020, two Final Rules issued by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’ (“CFIUS”) implementing most of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”) became...more
Report from the 2019 Mayors’ Annual Energy Summit in Carlsbad, NM -
We attended the Mayors’ Annual Energy Summit again this year, on September 12, at the Walter Gerrells Civic Center Annex in Carlsbad, NM. The Mayors’...more
10/14/2019
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Climate Change ,
DIFC ,
Energy Policy ,
Energy Sector ,
Energy Summit ,
Foreign Investment ,
Human Rights ,
Oil & Gas ,
Project Finance
On September 17, 2019, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) published two Proposed Rules to implement most of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”). CFIUS is an...more
9/19/2019
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Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cybersecurity ,
FIRRMA ,
Foreign Investment ,
Infrastructure ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Proposed Rules ,
Real Estate Transactions ,
Technology Sector