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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the Committee) has released its Annual Report to Congress for calendar year 2024. As with earlier years, the report provides detailed statistics on CFIUS’s...more
The release of the “America First” investment policy memorandum on Feb. 21 was a glimpse into the Trump administration’s approach to foreign investment oversight, particularly for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the...more
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) recently released the public version of its Annual Report to Congress for calendar year 2024. Key trends include an increase in formal inquiries into...more
On April 11, the U.S. Treasury Department promulgated a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) amending the regulations that govern the operations of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to increase...more
Key Takeaways: The Treasury Department is seeking to equip CFIUS with greater enforcement and oversight authority. These new powers include the ability to request more information from transaction parties and also to assess...more
On September 15, 2022, President Biden issued Executive Order 14083 (“EO 14083”) that the White House describes as a “first-ever presidential directive defining additional national security factors for CFIUS to consider in...more
On 5 June 2020, the Treasurer of Australia announced reforms to Australia's foreign investment framework. The key focus of the reforms is national security risks to deal with the current environment, including rapid...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
On January 13, 2020, the U.S. Department of Treasury published final regulations relating to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS. The regulations implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review...more
On January 13, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury), on behalf of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the Committee), issued two sets of final regulations implementing the...more
The Trump administration continues to expand the powers of the US government to block foreign investment in the U.S. on national security grounds. In 1975, President Gerald Ford established the Committee on Foreign Investment...more
The national security implications of corporate deals involving foreign investors continues to be a headline-grabbing topic, now more than ever as the United States engages in heated trade negotiations with China amidst...more
At a press availability on May 10, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Ellen Lord, discussed the “matchmaking” service the Department of Defense (“DoD” or “Department”) is helping to create, to put...more
The business climate in the United States, though subject to business cycles, is the largest, most dynamic and durable in the world....more
Markets took a beating yesterday, with investors apparently put off by tech stocks, tensions with China, a recent jump in interest rates and government bond yields, and a tightening Fed monetary policy....more
Con sus raíces en la Enmienda Exon-Florio a la Ley de Producción de Defensa, el Comité de Inversión Extranjera en los Estados Unidos (Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, CFIUS), es un comité...more
With its roots in the Exon-Florio Amendment to the Defense Production Act, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), is an inter-agency committee that reviews certain foreign investments in the United...more
In today’s international nuclear marketplace, foreign investment is a significant source of capital for U.S. next-generation nuclear ventures. ...more
Last month, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) released its annual report to Congress for 2015 (the “2015 Annual Report”) and its cumulative table summarizing foreign investment activity from...more
In 2015, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a U.S. Government interagency committee that conducts national security reviews of foreign investments, maintained a heavy case load, reviewing 143...more
Twelve years have passed since publication of the article Uncle Sam Watches Nervously: Foreign Investment in U.S. Industries in 2004. That article discussed the review process under the Exon-Florio Amendment delegated to the...more
We expect 2017 M&A activity in the aerospace, defense, and government services (ADG) industry sector to equal or surpass 2016 M&A activity. Although 2016 M&A activity was down both by volume and value over 2015 it was...more
Congressional efforts to reform the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a U.S. Government interagency committee that conducts national security reviews, continue apace. This week saw the introduction...more
Congress crafted the Exon-Florio Amendment in 1988 to fill gaps that it perceived in federal antitrust, environmental and securities laws, as well as in the general power of the president to declare a national emergency, and...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