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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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The EU Commission Gets Serious About Foreign Direct Investment Screening

As part of its European Economic Security Package, the European Commission (‘Commission’) has recently proposed a number of legislative proposals and White Papers intended to better protect Europe’s strategic interests...more

Cooley LLP

Court of Justice Sets Lightning Rod for EU Foreign Direct Investment Screening

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On 13 July 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down its first ruling on the European Union Foreign Direct Investment Screening Regulation, which entered into force in October 2020. In short, the...more

Jones Day

ECJ Clarifies Conditions Under Which Member States Can Block Foreign Direct Investments

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In Short - The Situation: On July 13, 2023, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") issued a judgment (Case C-106/22 - Xella) clarifying the conditions under which EU Member States may screen and block foreign direct...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Foreign Investment Benchmarking Survey: Deadline Looms for U.S. Companies with Foreign Ownership

U.S. companies with foreign ownership face a June 30 deadline to respond to a survey of foreign investment in the United States. The U.S. government is conducting the 2022 Benchmark Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Foreign-Owned U.S. Companies Must Soon Respond to Federal Survey

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The International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act ("IITSSA"), 22 USC § 3101 requires the Bureau of Economic Analysis (“BEA”) within the U.S. Department of Commerce to conduct a national survey of foreign direct...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Key Points from the CFIUS Annual Report for Calendar Year 2021

Last month, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) released its Annual Report to Congress covering 2021. The key takeaway is that CFIUS is more active than ever, subjecting a record number of...more

White & Case LLP

The European Commission adopts far-reaching proposals to control foreign subsidies

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On 5 May 2021, the European Commission ("Commission") issued a proposal for a far-reaching Regulation to tackle foreign subsidies, which, if adopted, will increase the regulatory risk for companies operating or investing in...more

BCLP

EU M&A Regulation is getting tougher – what you need to know in 2020 and beyond

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The COVID-19 pandemic has made 2020 a difficult year for many companies looking to do deals. Competition agencies and other government regulators have in many cases slowed down their timeframes or even refused to accept...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Reminder Regarding the Jurisdictional Reach and Limits of U.S. Export Control, Sanctions, and Foreign Investment Regulations

United States export control, sanctions, and foreign investment (CFIUS) regulations advance U.S. national security and foreign policy interests, but in very different ways. They are also quite complex. As a result, media...more

Cooley LLP

Alert: UK Government Extends Powers to Intervene in Mergers on Public Interest Grounds

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In the UK, there is currently no separate foreign direct investment (FDI) screening regime. Instead, the UK government can only intervene in limited circumstances where a transaction raises at least one of the following...more

Cozen O'Connor

U.S. Companies with Foreign Affiliates Face Reporting Deadline In 2020

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The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) requires U.S. persons who control, directly or indirectly, at least 10 percent or more of the ownership interests in a foreign business enterprise to file a...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Antitrust M&A Snapshot - May 2019

UNITED STATES: JANUARY - MARCH 2019 UPDATE - In the first quarter of 2019, vertical merger enforcement continued to be a hot topic for the US antitrust agencies. The Court of Appeals upheld the district court’s decision in...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

New EU Investment Screening Rules: 10 Key Things Dealmakers Need to Know

The EU has recently laid the ground to take a more active role in the screening of foreign direct investment (FDI). On April 10, 2019, the EU formally established a framework for foreign investment screening including a...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

New EU Rules On Foreign Investments: All You Need To Know About The New Screening Mechanism

The Council of the European Union (EU) has adopted a new regulation “establishing a framework for the screening of foreign direct investments into the Union” (the Regulation). This is the first time the EU is equipping itself...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Three-and-a-Half CFIUS Issues Needing Immediate Attention: Why Thinking "Big Whoop" Could Lead to Big Trouble

So you've heard a lot about CFIUS reform and the changes that may result from FIRRMA, perhaps from our prior pieces. While the President just signed FIRRMA into law on August 13, you probably know that many key FIRRMA...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Important Reminder: Required Filing by U.S. Companies With 10 Percent or Greater Foreign Ownership is Due May 31, 2018

The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) requires each U.S. business enterprise in which a foreign person owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, 10 percent or more of the voting securities in an...more

BCLP

Is France going to strengthen its control over foreign direct investments again?

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The current rules in France concerning the control over foreign direct investments arose from the deregulation of international capital flows which occurred worldwide, and especially in the United States and the European...more

Hogan Lovells

Foreign investment filings and merger control filings: navigating the European and global regulatory seas when your company...

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The European Union (EU) has recently proposed new rules establishing a framework for the review of foreign investments in the EU on the grounds of security or public order (“Commission Proposal”)....more

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Pivot to Arbitration: China Embraces Arbitration to Promote Investment

In the past several months, China has adopted new arbitration rules and unveiled a new arbitration center to help resolve the inevitable international disputes arising from the development of The Silk Road Economic Belt and...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Update on China’s New Restrictions on Internet Content

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Apple’s iTunes and Disney’s DisneyLife websites have reportedly become early targets of China’s internet regulators who are beginning to enforce new rules restricting the publication of online content. The new rules, the...more

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