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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
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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 EU Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Screening Regulation (Regulation) entered into force in October 2020. It aims to create a cooperation mechanism which enables EU member states and the European Commission (EC) to...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
Key takeaways U.S. Treasury to establish a “fast track” foreign investment review process. It will include a “Known Investor” portal that allows the submission of information in advance of filing with Committee on Foreign...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
The guide outlines the requirements of a newly implemented Data Security Program designed to prevent China, Russia and other foreign adversaries designated by the U.S. Department of Justice from accessing American’s sensitive...more
Determine how the new administration will affect CFIUS practitioners and how the committee will continue its enforcement practices at ACI’s 11th National Conference on CFIUS. Don’t miss your best opportunity to hear how your...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
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
In Short - The Development: On 1 June 2023, the Security Screening of Investment, Mergers and Acquisitions Act (Wet Veiligheidstoets investeringen, fusies en overnames) ("the FDI Act") entered into force, introducing a...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 lowered threshold for foreign direct investments into France will apply to non-EU and non-EEA investors or to any investor fiscally domiciled outside the European Union and European Economic Area. On July 23, 2020,...more
On June 15, 2020, the Japanese government implemented new regulations that designate the manufacture of pharmaceuticals for infectious diseases and the manufacture of highly-controlled medical devices (medical devices that...more
After a few years of debating and making into law, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) regulations implementing the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA) took effect on Feb. 13,...more
The Situation: The French government issued on December 31, 2019, new rules substantially revising the French Foreign Direct Investments ("FDI") regulation. These new provisions mostly implement the recent PACTE law and the...more
In 2018, Congress passed the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA) to modernize the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). CFIUS is chaired by the Secretary of the Treasury and is...more
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS") issued final regulations on January 13, 2020 to comprehensively implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 ("FIRRMA") (the...more
On September 17, 2019, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) published two Proposed Rules to implement most of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”). CFIUS is an...more
The U.S. Treasury Department recently signaled that it is close to finalizing new regulations that will apply to investments by non-U.S. investors in U.S. companies, assets, and real estate subject to review under the...more
Following completion of the Trilogue process, the three main EU institutions have agreed on a compromise for a new Regulation that gives the EU a largely procedural and coordinating function in connection with foreign direct...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 October 10, 2018, the US Department of the Treasury launched a significant pilot program to implement part of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA) while final rules are being crafted. The pilot...more