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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

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

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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

China Increases Merger Filing Thresholds

China has finally published the long-awaited amendments to its merger control filing thresholds, which will materially impact companies considering mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures this year. The amended Rules on the...more

Jones Day

China's Antitrust Enforcer Adopts First Remedies in Domestic M&A Deals

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The State Administration for Market Regulation's ("SAMR") remedies decisions in two recent domestic transactions are the first conditional antitrust M&A settlements in the 15-year history of antitrust enforcement under...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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden’s 2023 Insights – Five Critical Areas for the Year Ahead

The pandemic’s impact may be subsiding, but businesses are encountering new challenges across the globe, including the potential for an economic retrenchment, rising interest rates, shifting regulatory and litigation...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

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

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Cardinal Health FCPA Enforcement Action: High Risk Business Relationships

Cardinal Health Inc. (Cardinal) settled its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matter with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week. According to the SEC Press Release, Anita B. Bandy, Associate Director in...more

A&O Shearman

Coronavirus: Points to consider on M&A transactions

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As coronavirus (Covid-19), first reported in Wuhan in December 2019, spreads across China and beyond, it has been widely reported that some Chinese companies are looking to suspend or terminate their contractual commitments....more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Update on China’s Recent Liberalization of the Legal Regime for Foreign Investment

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With the ongoing US-China trade tension, what has been easily overlooked is China’s recent liberalization of its legal regime in the areas of foreign investment and foreign investors’ M&A activities in China. This...more

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Jones Day Global Merger Control Update - August 2018

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This Jones Day Global Merger Control Update discusses developments in existing merger control regimes over the first half of 2018, as well as the emergence of new merger control regimes worldwide. Over the past few years,...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

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

CFIUS, POTUS Block Chinese Acquisition of U.S. Semi-conductor Maker

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More Acquisitions May Be Blocked in the Future - Last month, asserting national security concerns, President Trump blocked a $1.3 billion acquisition of Oregon-based Lattice Semiconductor by a subsidiary of the Canyon...more

Jones Day

Looking Beyond the Recent CFIUS Annual Report

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The Situation: CFIUS recently released its annual report to Congress regarding transactions reviewed by CFIUS during 2015, as well as limited information regarding transactions reviewed during 2016....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

CFIUS’s 2015 Annual Report and Published 2016 Data Demonstrate Uptick in Review Activity and Scrutiny

On September 19, 2017, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the “Committee”) released its annual report (“Report”) to Congress. One day later, CFIUS also released more limited data on foreign...more

Cooley LLP

Alert: M&A Lessons Learned from the Blocked Chinese Acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor

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Last week, President Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting the acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (Lattice), a US computer chip manufacturer, by a Chinese investor. The president's order blocking the...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

CFIUS and the New Trump Administration: Your Top Ten Questions Answered

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One of the themes of the Trump campaign was the need for enhanced national security. Although the Committee of Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is not mentioned in Mr. Trump’s 100-day plan, it is highly likely...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Six Crucial Points About the Prohibition on Chinese Investors' Acquisition of U.S. Aixtron Operations

On December 2, President Obama, acting under the Exon-Florio law, blocked the planned acquisition by China's Fujian Grand Chip Investment Fund LP ("Fujian Grand Chip"), a Chinese investment fund, of the U.S. operations of...more

NAVEX

Landmark SEC Decision Cites Compliance, Diligence in Decision Not to Prosecute FCPA Violations

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In a remarkable affirmation of the value of robust compliance and due-diligence programs, the Securities and Exchange Commission last month announced that it would not prosecute a U.S. company for potential violations of the...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

The Ping FCPA Enforcement Action: Lessons for the Compliance Practitioner

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) settled a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action against an individual earlier this month when it announced the resolution of a matter involving Jun Ping Zhang,...more

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