Episode 319 -- Deep Dive into SCG Plastics' $20 Million Settlement with OFAC for Violations of the Iran Sanctions Program
Jones Day Talks: Italy Embraces Foreign investment but Maintains Oversight
Jones Day Talks: Doing Deals Down Under: Australia's Foreign Direct Investment Regime
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 66-Visit with the FCPA Professor
On May 12, 2025, the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) released an updated Standard Form 328 (SF-328), “Certificate Pertaining to Foreign Interests.”...more
U.S. investors interested in investing in advanced Chinese technology companies may now be constrained by the U.S. Government’s first-ever outbound investment rule (Final Rule) which took effect on Jan. 2, 2025. The Final...more
On August 22, 2024, Germany’s Federal Fiscal Court (Bundesfinanzhof) published a decision that refocuses attention on the complexities of cross-border taxation, particularly for Luxembourg-based funds investing in Germany....more
What do overseas entitles dealing with UK property have to have on their radar right now? The main thing may well be complying with the updating duty under the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022....more
With a stated goal of enhancing transparency of business ownership, the federal Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) mandates various types of businesses – such as corporations, limited liability companies, and limited...more
On May 8, 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Senate Bill 264: Interests of Foreign Countries (SB 264), effective July 1, 2023. The law may affect not only traditional real property owners and investors but also...more
The US Treasury Department published final regulations to implement FIRRMA, which greatly expanded the scope of CFIUS to review foreign investments in US businesses. The new rules clarify and revise proposed regulations...more
In August of last year, President Trump signed into law the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA), a sweeping overhaul of the operations and jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in...more
A court in New York has allowed offshore debtors to take control of an investment account in the U.S. over the objection of a shareholder. At stake was the court’s discretion to permit chapter 15 debtors to access the funds...more
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
In its July 1, 2015 decision in the case of Anson v. HM Revenue & Customs (2015 UKSC 44), the Supreme Court of England and Wales ruled that a Delaware limited liability company was “transparent” for UK income tax purposes. A...more
Investment funds, including private equity funds, often receive capital contributions from tax-exempt organizations. These tax-exempt institutions may include U.S. and foreign pension funds, as well as U.S. and foreign...more