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CFIUS 2024 Annual Report: Compliance, Enforcement, and Non‑Notified Transactions – What Dealmakers Need to Know

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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

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How Overseas Investors Can Navigate Broad Reach of Federal Government's CFIUS Real Estate Reviews in the Carolinas

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

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New Executive Order Directs Consideration of National Security Risks in CFIUS Reviews

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​​​​​​​On September 15, 2022, President Biden signed an executive order (EO) directing consideration of certain national security factors by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or "the Committee")...more

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CFIUS 2021 Annual Report: Considerations for Businesses

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury, in its role as chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), released the public version of its Annual Report to Congress for Calendar Year 2021 (Annual...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

CFIUS After FIRRMA Implementation: A Crash Course in Assessing and Navigating Risk

On October 15, 2020, the final rule implementing the baseline requirements of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA) took effect. This final rule altered the mandatory filing rules of the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

CFIUS Mandatory Filings for Certain "Critical Technology" Transactions – New Export Controls Test

As anticipated in our prior alert, yesterday the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) published a final rule that ties CFIUS’s mandatory filing requirement for certain “critical technology”...more

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Treasury Proposes to Modify CFIUS Mandatory Declaration Requirements

Treasury has proposed rules that would modify provisions in the regulations of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, that implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018,...more

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CFIUS Abruptly Imposes New Notice Filing Fees

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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

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CFIUS’s Final Real Estate Regulations: Still a Largely Voluntary Process

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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

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The New CFIUS ‘Geographic Reference Tool’ – Handle With Care

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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

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FAQs on CFIUS and FIRRMA

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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

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CFIUS Publishes Proposed Rule on New Filing Fees

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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) published a proposed rule on March 9, 2020, that would establish a fee for parties filing a voluntary notice of certain transactions for review by CFIUS. In...more

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CFIUS Proposes Filing Fees

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

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

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Proposed CFIUS filing fees for foreign investments announced

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

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Final Regulations Go Into Effect for CFIUS Jurisdiction Expansion

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The U.S. Department of Treasury has issued final regulations, which became effective February 13, 2020, implementing the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA)....more

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CFIUS Begins Review Process for Real Estate Transactions by a Foreign Investor

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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

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New Rules Expand CFIUS Jurisdiction Over Foreign Investment in U.S. Businesses and Real Estate

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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

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

CFIUS finalizes expanded jurisdiction over foreign transactions in U.S. real estate

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

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Final Regulations Expanding CFIUS Jurisdiction Over Investments by Foreign Persons

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On January 13, 2020, the U.S. Treasury Department issued final regulations (the Regulations) expanding the scope of foreign investments subject to review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)...more

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FIRRMA Regulations Finalized

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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

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Final Regulations on Expanded Authority of CFIUS to Review Foreign Investor Transactions Go into Effect

Eighteen months after President Trump signed the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (“FIRRMA”) which broadened the power of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) to review foreign...more

Morgan Lewis

The Next Big Things: Insights for 2020

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Autonomous cars, sports betting, and CBD products have burst onto the scene, setting the stage for major developments in how companies do business and how regulators monitor new innovations....more

Hogan Lovells

New CFIUS Rules Potentially Impacting Nuclear Foreign Investment

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After over a year of anticipation, in January the U.S. Treasury Department released its final regulations that revise the jurisdiction and rules for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’ (CFIUS), following...more

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January 2020: What CFIUS Final Regulations Mean for Businesses

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Background - On January 13, 2020, the U.S. Department of Treasury, on behalf of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), issued final rules expanding CFIUS’s authority to review foreign investments...more

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