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CFIUS 2024 Annual Report: Key Trends, Enforcement, and Considerations for 2025

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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) released its 2024 Annual Report to Congress on August 6, 2025, outlining key trends in filings for the 2024 calendar year....more

White & Case LLP

CFIUS 2024 Annual Report Key Takeaways

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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the Committee) recently published its Annual Report to Congress covering calendar year 2024 (the Report). In many respects, the data within the Report mirrors...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

A Golden Share and an Order to Unwind: Early Lessons in CFIUS from the New Administration

On July 8, 2025, President Trump issued an order to unwind the acquisition of Jupiter Systems, Inc., a U.S. company, by Hong Kong-based Suirui International Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China’s Suirui Group (collectively...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

LathamTECH in Focus: Tech Deals: The Emerging Focus of FDI Regulators?

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In this episode of LathamTECH in Focus, Silicon Valley partner Tessa Bernhardt examines the global expansion of foreign direct investment statutes, discusses where she is seeing heightened regulatory activity and offers...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Will Texas Become the First State To Enact a “Mini-CFIUS” Review Process?

On March 13, 2025, the Texas Legislature introduced HB 5007, which, if enacted, could establish the first US state regime tasked with screening foreign investments on national security grounds....more

A&O Shearman

Global M&A Insights Q4 2024 - introduction

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In our biannual M&A trends report we explore the possible impact of the new U.S. administration on dealmaking, the dynamics of transatlantic M&A, private equity exits, and Mario Draghi’s proposals to reshape the European...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

A Look into DOJ’s Current Corporate Criminal Enforcement Landscape

At the Global Investigations Review Annual Meeting in New York on September 21, 2023, Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Marshall Miller (“Miller”) delivered remarks that provide an invaluable glimpse into the...more

Cooley LLP

Cross-Border M&A: 10 Key Trends From Across the Pond

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It will come as no surprise that cross-border M&A is impacted by the world we live in, with geopolitical tensions, rising inflation and interest rates, currency fluctuations, and increased regulatory scrutiny all playing...more

Cozen O'Connor

Canada Proposes Sweeping National Security Updates to Investment Canada Act

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Foreign investors in Canadian businesses are set to face tougher national security review provisions under the Investment Canada Act (the ICA). Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry proposed sweeping...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Unwound: UK government orders reversal of semiconductor deal on national security grounds

The UK government has exercised its powers under the UK’s national security and investment regime to unwind Chinese-owned Nexperia’s acquisition of Newport Wafer Fab (“NWF”), a semiconductor wafer factory located in Newport,...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Several UK Government National Security Interventions Confirm Heightened Deal Risk for UK Investments

Last week saw the first publicly disclosed uses by the UK Government of its new and expansive powers to investigate deals on national security grounds under the National Security and Investment Act (“NSIA”), which came into...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

The UK's National Security and Investment Act Now Fully in Force

The United Kingdom's National Security and Investment Act (the NSI Act) is now fully in force. First proposed in 2016, the NSI Act creates a stand-alone regime that authorizes the UK government to consider and address the...more

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

China Mobile Case Illustrates Breadth of Canada’s National Security Review Regime

After operating in Canada for five years, China Mobile International (Canada) Inc. (CMI) was ordered by the Canadian government in August 2021 to shut down or divest its Canadian operations because of national security...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Application of the U.K.’s National Security and Investment Act to M&A Transactions

Although the U.K.’s National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSI Act), which sets out the U.K.’s new national security investment screening framework, received Royal Assent on April 29, 2021, the vast majority of the NSI...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

UK To Adopt New Powers Over M&A Activity To Protect National Security

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Draft legislation, which is currently being debated in the UK Parliament, will introduce a new regime granting the UK Secretary of State robust powers to review, vary or block acquisitions which may pose a risk to the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CFIUK: The United Kingdom Introduces a New Mechanism for Foreign Direct Investment Screening

On November 11, 2020, the UK government proposed a much anticipated National Security and Investment Bill (the Bill or proposed Regulation) before Parliament. The Bill is the result of a series of government papers and legal...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Reminder Regarding the Jurisdictional Reach and Limits of U.S. Export Control, Sanctions, and Foreign Investment Regulations

United States export control, sanctions, and foreign investment (CFIUS) regulations advance U.S. national security and foreign policy interests, but in very different ways. They are also quite complex. As a result, media...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Crisis Prompts European Countries To Step Up Protections Against Foreign M&A

The coronavirus pandemic has weakened European economies and companies. EU and national governments have expressed concern that foreign investors may opportunistically take advantage of the crisis to acquire domestic...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Fees and Loathing at CFIUS: The Committee Imposes Filing Fees, Forces Divestment, and Reportedly Blocks Another Big Deal

For an entity that has historically placed an emphasis on maintaining the secrecy of its proceedings, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS, or the Committee) has recently attracted quite a few...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

New EU Investment Screening Rules: 10 Key Things Dealmakers Need to Know

The EU has recently laid the ground to take a more active role in the screening of foreign direct investment (FDI). On April 10, 2019, the EU formally established a framework for foreign investment screening including a...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

M&A in Canada: The Increasing Importance of Navigating National Security Approvals

Getting a merger reviewed on national security grounds can cause delays and even lead to failed transactions. Canada began screening foreign takeovers on national security grounds in 2009, and today merger planning requires...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

Cooley LLP

Alert: UK Government Introduces Lower National Security Merger Review Thresholds

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Under new measures coming into force on 11 June, the UK government will have greater powers to intervene in mergers that potentially raise national security concerns due to the target's involvement in military and dual-use...more

Cooley LLP

Alert: M&A Guide to CFIUS: Deciding Whether to Submit Voluntarily to CFIUS Review

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As discussed in a prior article in this series, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is authorized to review certain cross-border mergers, acquisitions and investment transactions and to recommend that the...more

Baker Donelson

Sweeping Implications for CFIUS Reform: Bipartisan FIRRMA Legislation Gains Traction

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As President Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on November 9 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, he surprised many by giving China "great credit" for "taking advantage of" the United States on key...more

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