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The UK Launches Its Own ‘FARA’: What Companies Need to Know About the New Foreign Influence Registration Scheme

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On July 1, 2025, the United Kingdom’s new Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS) will formally take effect, creating sweeping registration obligations under U.K. law for persons engaging in certain activities on behalf...more

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Senator Urges DOJ to Investigate Foreign Influence Over U.S. AI Policy

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U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, recently sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) expressing concerns...more

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Foreign Influence Registration Scheme: a UK FARA

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The UK has introduced new registration requirements on persons carrying on certain activities (e.g. political influence activities) for foreign states in the United Kingdom, which is expected to come into force in the course...more

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Top 10 Anti-Corruption Developments for October 2023

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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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The FIRSt Step? The UK Launches its own FARA-like Foreign Influence Law

On July 11, 2023, the UK’s Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (“FIRS”) became law. As part of the National Security Act 2023, FIRS requires registration of arrangements intended to influence UK politics at the direction of...more

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Proposed Registration Requirements for UK Foreign Influence Activities

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The UK government has proposed new registration requirements for foreign influence activities in the UK as part of its attempts to strengthen the resilience of the UK’s political system and democratic institutions against...more

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The UK’s Foreign Influence Registration Scheme: further enhancing the UK’s national security toolbox

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On 8 September 2022, the UK Government introduced the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS) by way of amendment to the National Security Bill (the Bill)....more

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National Security And Investment Act Receives Royal Assent

On 29 April 2021, there was a significant development in the evolving European national security landscape, when the National Security and Investment Act (the “Act”) was granted Royal Assent and passed into law in the United...more

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Secrets and Spies: The UK's Proposal for Foreign Agent Registration

On July 21, 2020, the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament published the Russia Report (the Report). The Report found that the UK was one of Russia’s “top Western intelligence targets” and that the UK government...more

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