Are You a Foreign Agent? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 21
On February 5, 2025, US Attorney General (AG), Pam Bondi, issued a memorandum entitled Total Elimination of Cartels and Transnational Criminal Organizations, in which she provides new guidance to the Department of Justice...more
The Canadian government announced a new policy on October 28, 2022 (the Policy) under the Investment Canada Act (ICA) governing investments by state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Canada’s critical minerals sector....more
In October 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed charges against eight individuals accused of operating “repatriation squads” in the United States on behalf of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It announced...more
Federal authorities have recently described the threat of economic espionage from foreign entities as one of the greatest threats to the economic vitality of the United States, and this has led to an increase in...more
Recent measures from U.S. lawmakers and Nasdaq to impose additional requirements on U.S.-listed China-based companies could have wider implications. On May 20, 2020, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Holding Foreign...more
This is the third alert in our series on the risks to corporations, including financial services firms, posed by “deepfakes”—a type of technology, powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, that can be used to...more