Investors, Export Controls, FIRRMA

U.S. Issues Unprecedented Order Restricting Investment in China

Torres Trade Law, PLLC on 2/3/2025

Senator Cornyn made the above statement on the Senate floor on November 14, 2023, while advocating for his colleagues to pass the Outbound Investment Transparency Act as part of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act...more

New Rules Expand CFIUS Jurisdiction Over Foreign Investment in U.S. Businesses and Real Estate

Jackson Walker on 2/19/2020

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is an interagency committee that reviews mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers by foreign persons of U.S. companies and assets that have the potential to pose...more

Shaking up Terra FIRRMA: Implications of CFIUS Reform for Tech and Life Sciences Companies

Fenwick & West LLP on 8/23/2018

The shadow cast over the technology industry by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. has been growing in recent years, resulting in the blocking of various high-profile technology deals—including Broadcom’s...more

New U.S. Law on Foreign Investment Further Complicates Future Chinese Investments in the United States

Foster Garvey PC on 8/20/2018

On August 13, 2018, the President signed into law new legislation that will impose heightened oversight of investments by Chinese persons in U.S. businesses. The Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA)...more

The CFIUS Reform Legislation—FIRRMA—Will Become Law on August 13, 2018

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 8/13/2018

CFIUS will continue to have broad jurisdiction to conduct national security reviews of foreign investments that could result in foreign control of a U.S. business. When regulations implementing FIRRMA become effective within...more

On FIRRMA Ground: Congress to Restrict Foreign Investment and Expand Export Controls

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 6/29/2018

This week, there were reports that the Trump Administration would use emergency powers to restrict Chinese investment in the United States. On Wednesday, the White House backed away from that position after the House of...more