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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) recently released the public version of its Annual Report to Congress for calendar year 2024. Key trends include an increase in formal inquiries into...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
There are more than 500 miles that separate the western, more mountainous region of North Carolina from the U.S. state’s eastern shorelines. It’s an expansive area that, depending on traffic, can take close to 9 hours to...more
On July 8, 2024, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Investment Security issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) that proposed to expand the geographic reach in which the Committee on Foreign...more
Editor’s Note: The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) plays a pivotal role in regulating foreign investments in American companies, particularly those that could impact national security. This...more
The recent developments signal a renewed vigor to protect US national security. This Client Alert highlights the following recent developments relating to national security investment reviews conducted by the Committee on...more
Beginning May 1, 2020, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) will require a filing fee in connection with any formal notice of a “covered transaction” or a “covered real estate transaction.” The...more
The CFIUS real estate regulations reflect a new emphasis on real estate transactions based on proximity to military installations and certain critical infrastructure, requiring careful analysis when deciding whether a real...more
Released last month by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, the Geographic Reference Tool is a useful starting point in determining what constitutes covered real estate transactions, but does not provide...more
What is CFIUS? The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is an interagency committee charged with reviewing transactions involving foreign investment in the U.S. and certain real estate transactions for...more
To further implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”), the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) has issued proposed regulations that would require parties to...more
For the first time in its history, the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) plans to require the payment of fees in connection with the submission of full notifications for covered foreign...more
Beginning this month, the U.S. government can now block foreigners from taking possession of real estate anywhere in the country when it concludes the deal may threaten U.S. national security. In the past, only foreign...more
As discussed in the initial article on the new CFIUS regulations, there are two important exceptions from coverage that need to be evaluated in determining what, if any, steps need to be taken to ensure compliance with the...more
Growing concern about foreign surveillance and intelligence gathering led Congress to provide CFIUS with authority to review real estate transactions by foreign parties when it passed FIRRMA... Prior to FIRRMA, CFIUS began to...more
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is an interagency committee that reviews mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers by foreign persons of U.S. companies and assets that have the potential to pose...more
On January 17, 2020, the U.S. Treasury Department published final rules in the Federal Register implementing the Foreign Risk Review Modernization Act (“FIRRMA”), one of which implements FIRRMA’s provisions regarding foreign...more
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) published two final rules on January 17, 2019, to implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA) enacted in August 2018. The first...more
The most pressing question around the new FIRRMA regulations is “Will my transaction be covered?” To provide a bit of guidance on that point, we present an illustration from our upcoming Second Edition of The CFIUS Book due...more
On January 13, 2020, the U.S. Department of Treasury published final regulations relating to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS. The regulations implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review...more
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS") issued final regulations on January 13, 2020 to comprehensively implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 ("FIRRMA") (the...more
The Trump administration continues to expand the powers of the US government to block foreign investment in the U.S. on national security grounds. In 1975, President Gerald Ford established the Committee on Foreign Investment...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Investment Security published proposed regulations on September 24 (“Proposed Regulations”). Under the Proposed Regulations, more foreign investment transactions will be subject...more
The Situation: The U.S. Department of the Treasury ("Treasury") proposed regulations that for the first time subject certain real estate transactions to the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United...more
The Situation: The U.S. Department of the Treasury ("Treasury") proposed regulations that expand the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS" or the "Committee") to review foreign...more