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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

Husch Blackwell LLP

Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan and New Executive Orders Offer Strategic Opportunities and Legal Risks for Private...

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Key Point: “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” the Trump Administration’s summary approach to federal artificial intelligence (AI) policy, and three new Executive Orders (EO) propose a wide-ranging federal strategy...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for June 2025

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more

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An In-House Compliance Guide for Responding to President Trump's Executive Order on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement

As has widely been published, on February 10, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order (EO) 14209, which paused all future investigations and enforcement actions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for at least...more

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Fact Sheet: Trump March 4 Trade Actions on Canada, Mexico, China

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On February 1, President Trump issued two Executive Orders (EOs) announcing the imposition of a 25% tariff on products of Canada (10% on energy products) and Mexico, effective February 4. On February 3, the President...more

Snell & Wilmer

Reevaluating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement: A New Paradigm

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On February 10, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order (E.O.) directing a shift in the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The order effectively pauses new FCPA investigations and enforcement...more

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Enforcement under the Trump Administration: Reports of the FCPA’s Death are Exaggerated

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On February 10, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order (the “EO”) directing the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) to pause new Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) investigations and enforcement actions for 180...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Artificial Intelligence Briefing: Trump 2.0 Executive Orders Revoke, Overhaul Biden Administration’s Approach

The AI landscape saw developments coming in at a breakneck pace throughout January 2025. We’re diving into the latest executive orders from the new White House administration, proposed HIPAA security rule revisions addressing...more

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New DHS Security Requirements Impact Compliance for Employers with Workers in Six “Countries of Concern”

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently published new security requirements for certain restricted transactions covered by the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) sensitive data export rules. ...more

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Trump Rolls Back Biden’s AI Executive Order and Makes AI Infrastructure Push: Key Takeaways for Employers

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In the first few whirlwind days of President Trump’s new administration, the White House enacted a sweeping shift in AI policy: rescinding President Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence on Monday and announcing...more

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Hitting the Ground Running: Trump’s Promised Tariffs on February 1, 2025

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As President Trump begins his second term, the absence of tariffs among the more than 200 executive orders signed on his first day in office was a notable deviation from expectations. However, the President announced plans to...more

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Compliance Deadline Approaches for New Regs Targeting U.S. Investment in Chinese AI, Semiconductors, Quantum Tech

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On November 15, the U.S. Department of the Treasury published final regulations to implement its long-awaited “Outbound Investment” Security Program, which the Biden Administration originally introduced in August 2023 under...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Commerce Issues First-Ever ICTS “Final Determination” Banning Kaspersky Cybersecurity Products

On June 24, 2024, the Commerce Department published a Final Determination under its Information and Communications Technology and Services (ICTS) authorities. The determination prohibits the Russian-controlled cybersecurity...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

President Biden Issues Long-Awaited Artificial Intelligence Executive Order

Key Points - The Biden-Harris Administration has issued its long-awaited executive order (EO) regulating artificial intelligence (AI). The order issues directives to over twenty federal agencies, with the deadline for...more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: Key Questions Answered about the New US Outbound Investment Regime Targeting China

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On August 9, 2023, President Biden issued an executive order to regulate, for the first time, US outbound investments in key technologies in China that are critical to national security. The executive order directs the...more

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Bank Failures May Raise CFIUS Issues

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Companies need to be aware of filing requirements before taking foreign money - On March 14, 2023, after a week of three bank failures that marked the largest such crisis since 2008, policymakers continued seeking private...more

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White House Pivots on Cyber: Voluntary Compliance Carrots Are Being Replaced By Big Regulatory Sticks

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The White House released the long-anticipated National Cybersecurity Strategy on March 2, 2023 setting out five (5) pillars articulating key themes and Administration priorities. Coming more than two years into the Biden...more

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Biden Issues CFIUS Executive Order: What Has Changed and What Remains the Same

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President Joseph Biden’s recently issued Executive Order provides guidance related to the US national security foreign direct investment review process administered by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States....more

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Enough’s Enough: A New Executive Order Signals Sweeping Changes To Federal Cybersecurity Requirements

Akin to the exasperations of the newly minted “homeschool teachers” the pandemic has created, the Biden administration’s recent Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (Order) is a mix of sound logic and utter...more

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Trump Administration Bars U.S. Investments in Certain Chinese Companies Linked to Chinese Military

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On November 12, 2020, President Trump issued Executive Order 139591 (“the Order”) that will shortly bar any U.S. person from “any transaction in publicly traded securities, or any securities that are derivative of, or are...more

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CFIUS Update: Chinese Company Ordered to Divest Acquisition of U.S. Hotel Software Company

On March 6, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order (“EO”) instructing the Chinese company Beijing Shiji Information Technology Co., Ltd. (“Shiji”) to divest its acquisition of StayNTouch, Inc., a U.S.-based software...more

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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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White Collar Year in Preview: Sanctions/Export Controls Trends in 2020

This is the sixth in our start-of-year series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. Our previous entry discussed enforcement by the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office in...more

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US Administration Tests the Water on New Unheard-of Government Review of International Technology Transactions

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Under this new evaluation process, Commerce can prohibit companies from engaging in a wide variety of transactions and order them to cease using the information technology or telecommunication system in question even if it is...more

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