Daily Compliance News: July 30, 2025, The Corruption Kill Business Edition
LathamTECH in Focus: Tech Deals: The Emerging Focus of FDI Regulators?
LathamTECH in Focus: Navigating National Security: The Impact of FDI Reviews on Tech M&A
5 Key Takeaways | SALT and Multinational Businesses: Analyzing State and Local Taxation of Foreign Company Transactions
Foreign Correspondent Podcast | The America First Investment Policy and What it Means for Investors
Podcast - A Comparative Guide to Obtaining an FCL: DCSA vs. the Intelligence Community
Podcast - The "I" in FOCI and AI: Innovation, Intelligence, Influence
Podcast - What Are Joint Ventures and When Should They Get Cleared?
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 27: U.S. Healthcare Reimbursement Guidance for Foreign Life Sciences Companies
2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: Cross-border Investment Review and New Restrictions
2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: Public Policy
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 25: Venture Capital Trends and Fundraising Strategies for Foreign Startups Expanding to the U.S.
Foreign Correspondent: An FDI Podcast | Mapping the National Security Landscape for Investors
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 23: Shaping Georgia’s Energy Landscape: Insights From Commissioner Tim Echols
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 22: What Global Companies Need to Know About Navigating FDA Regulations and U.S. Market Entry
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 217: Japanese Investment in North Carolina’s Life Sciences Industry with David Robinson of Maynard Nexsen
Private M&A 2024: Key Trends and Forecasts
Everyone Come to Play: Exploring FOCI Mitigation Instruments
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 19: The Rise of Korean Investment in the Southeast U.S.
Data center construction is surging around the world as companies race to build the critical infrastructure needed to power advancements in artificial intelligence. We consider below how this boom in data center construction...more
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the US foreign direct investment regulator, issues a report each year to the US Congress, detailing CFIUS’s reviews and investigations of foreign acquisitions...more
Defence, and the related military and dual-use sectors, encompasses activities supporting defensive and national security capabilities. While some of these activities may be defence-specific, others have applications in both...more
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) recently published its 2024 Calendar Year Annual Report, which illustrates recent and historical trends relating to CFIUS’s review of investments in U.S....more
Em 9 de janeiro de 2024, foi promulgada a Lei nº 14.801 ("Lei 14.801"), que criou o regime jurídico dos chamados “bonds incentivados”, aplicável a títulos de dívida emitidos no exterior por empresas brasileiras para...more
On 22 July 2025, the UK Government announced a set of targeted reforms to the National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSI Act) and launched a consultation into proposed further changes. Alongside the reforms, the 2024-25...more
On 30 July 2025, an ICSID tribunal chaired by Bernard Hanotiau and including Klaus Sachs and Charles Poncet as co-arbitrators issued an award unanimously dismissing all claims brought by Dutch businessman Bob Meijer against...more
Key Takeaways - As the August 1 deadline approaches, the U.S. has reached trade deals with several countries that lower U.S. tariff rates in exchange for increased market access and investments benefiting U.S. industries....more
On 22 July 2025, as part of a longstanding commitment to refine the UK’s investment screening regime to reduce burden on business, the UK government announced plans to introduce limited exemptions to the mandatory filing...more
Accompanying the publication of its fourth annual report on the operation of the National Security and Investment Act (“NSIA”) regime – and following its Call for Evidence in November 2023 – the UK government has launched its...more
On 22 July 2025, the UK government launched a long-awaited consultation on proposed amendments to the National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA) Notifiable Acquisition Regulations (NARs). The consultation seeks to...more
Over the last decade, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have emerged as influential and active players across a range of global asset classes. Most recently, the spotlight has turned to an unlikely but increasingly strategic...more
The UK government has published its latest annual report on the functioning of the UK’s investment screening regime under the National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA) as well as announcing its intention to reduce...more
In what was a busy week for the centre of Government in the UK, the Cabinet Office launched a consultation on proposed changes to the scope of the sectors subject to mandatory notification under the National Security and...more
Poland's foreign direct investment ("FDI") screening regime, originally introduced in 2020 for a 24-month period and subsequently extended for an additional 60 months (i.e. until 24 July 2025), established a mechanism for...more
The United States is advancing discussions toward a strategic minerals partnership with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This initiative reflects Washington’s growing focus on securing reliable access to critical...more
On 22 July 2025, the UK Cabinet Office announced a package of proposed reforms to the National Security and Investment Act (NSIA) 2021 aimed at streamlining the regime and easing the burden facing businesses who trigger NSIA...more
In this episode of LathamTECH in Focus, Silicon Valley partner Tessa Bernhardt examines the global expansion of foreign direct investment statutes, discusses where she is seeing heightened regulatory activity and offers...more
The President of Panama has requested that the National Assembly approve an agreement with the Southern Common Market - Mercado Común del Sur (Mercosur), with the aim of initiating bilateral negotiations with each member...more
In May 2025, the Treasury Department, as chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), announced a new “fast track process to facilitate greater investment in U.S. businesses from ally and partner...more
The Investment Canada Act (ICA) applies to all investments in Canada by non-Canadians. The Canadian government’s approach to investment reviews under the ICA has been shifting. While the review process previously focused on a...more
On July 11, 2025, the Trump administration published an order forcing Suirui International Co., Limited—a Hong Kong company that is majority owned by Suirui Group Co., Ltd., a People’s Republic of China company—to unwind its...more
Welcome to the July issue of Blakes Competitive Edge, a monthly publication of the Blakes Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment group. Blakes Competitive Edge provides an overview of recent developments in Canadian...more
How are dealmakers responding to an uncertain and volatile macro environment? Our latest M&A Insights report offers a global perspective on the forces shaping M&A activity, from the rising interest in the European defense...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) has been active in the context of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’ (“CFIUS”) and the Outbound Investment Security Program (“OISP”). The main updates...more