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Foreign Correspondent Podcast | The America First Investment Policy and What it Means for Investors
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Podcast - The "I" in FOCI and AI: Innovation, Intelligence, Influence
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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.
Episode 337 -- Nicolas Garcia, GC at Orica, on Compliance Trends and Challenges in Latin America
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has started enforcing final regulations that restrict, and in some cases prohibit, U.S. companies, funds and individuals from making certain investments in some technology industries owned...more
The Texas legislature has been active recently in proposing bills that seek to restrict foreign ownership of real estate and businesses in Texas. Texas does not currently have state-level restrictions on foreign ownership of...more
The demand for data centers is skyrocketing in the era of digital transformation, driven by the growth of cloud computing and AI technologies. Historically, China has tightly restricted or even barred foreign investment in...more
Despite uncertainty amid talks of reforming the Outbound Investment Security Program (OISP), the US Department of the Treasury is already actively pursuing enforcement actions against transaction parties that may have...more
On February 21, 2025, the Trump administration published its “America First Investment Policy” memorandum. Among other items, the Policy calls for the United States to restrict China-affiliated persons from investing in...more
Precedent-Setting Investment Restrictions – On January 2, 2025, the U.S. will start restricting foreign investments by U.S. persons in certain national security technologies. The Outbound Investment Rule and associated...more
On November 15, the U.S. Department of the Treasury published final regulations to implement its long-awaited “Outbound Investment” Security Program, which the Biden Administration originally introduced in August 2023 under...more
On June 6, 2024, Premier Li Qiang signed a State Council decree introducing the Regulation on Fair Competition Reviews (the Regulation) effective August 1. According to the Regulation, administrative agencies and...more
Following other countries which have tightened regulations on foreign investments in sectors sensitive to national security, Singapore has on 3 November 2023 announced the introduction of the Significant Investments Review...more
The global transition from internal combustion engines (ICE) to battery electric vehicles (BEV) will be transformative and disruptive, if not existential, for many segments of the automotive industry. All direct and indirect...more
PRC National Development and Reform Commission (the “NDRC”) and Ministry of Commerce (the “MOFCOM”) jointly published the Measures for the Security Review of Foreign Investment (the “Measures”) on 19 December 2020. The...more
The PRC Foreign Investment Law (“FIL”) and its Implementing Regulations (“Implementing Regulations”), took effect on January 1st, 2020. This means a single set of unified guiding documents has replaced the previous foreign...more
CFIUS has adopted a series of new amendments to its regulations that significantly expand its jurisdiction in the M&A process. In addition, President Trump has ordered another divestiture of a Chinese acquisition of a U.S....more
With the ongoing US-China trade tension, what has been easily overlooked is China’s recent liberalization of its legal regime in the areas of foreign investment and foreign investors’ M&A activities in China. This...more
The Trump Administration is making China deals more difficult. But business has to get done, and companies are finding ways to make progress even under the new CFIUS rules. China deals are harder to do under the Trump...more
On Feb. 4, 2016, China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (“SAPPRFT”) and the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly released the Administrative Rules on Network...more
The longstanding tension in China between expansion of service to the Internet and regulation of content on the Internet has entered a new phase. While the so-called Great Firewall remains in place to block unwanted overseas...more
New rules just published by the PRC impose new licensing and censorship requirements on almost all internet content providers, including publishers and aggregators of news, advertisements, social media content and mobile...more
As we reported in our February 18, 2014 alert, China’s State Council adopted a new, more permissive approach to regulation of overseas direct investment (“ODI”) with the promulgation on December 2, 2013 of the Circular...more