Compliance Tip of the Day: Why Engage in Pre-acquisition Due Diligence
Compliance Tip of the Day: Key M&A Enforcement Actions
Compliance Tip of the Day: M&A – International Issues
Daily Compliance News: August 5, 2025, The Staying Focused Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: M&A Domestic Issues
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, August 2, 2025
Daily Compliance News: July 28, 2025, The Where is Grasshopper when you need him Edition
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles: Uncovering M&A Compliance Lessons
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, July 26, 2025
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 74 - Global Women in AI/Corporate Director Liability: Discretionary, Not Fiduciary with Tram Anh Nguyen and Marc I. Steinberg
We get Privacy for work – Episode 6: The Potential Privacy Risks Inherent to Mergers and Acquisitions
Daily Compliance News: July 24, 2025, The In Phone Hell 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
Navigating Employee Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions: Lessons From Pretty Woman — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Treating Compliance Like an Asset
Episode 376 -- DOJ's Unicat Settlement and the Future Look of Trade Enforcement Actions
First 100 Days of the New HSR Rules with Antitrust Partner Kara Kuritz
Daily Compliance News: June 23, 2025, The Is Walmart Cool Edition
On July 8, 2025, President Trump issued an order to unwind the acquisition of Jupiter Systems, Inc., a U.S. company, by Hong Kong-based Suirui International Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China’s Suirui Group (collectively...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
In our biannual M&A trends report we explore the possible impact of the new U.S. administration on dealmaking, the dynamics of transatlantic M&A, private equity exits, and Mario Draghi’s proposals to reshape the European...more
It will come as no surprise that cross-border M&A is impacted by the world we live in, with geopolitical tensions, rising inflation and interest rates, currency fluctuations, and increased regulatory scrutiny all playing...more
Draft legislation, which is currently being debated in the UK Parliament, will introduce a new regime granting the UK Secretary of State robust powers to review, vary or block acquisitions which may pose a risk to the...more
United States export control, sanctions, and foreign investment (CFIUS) regulations advance U.S. national security and foreign policy interests, but in very different ways. They are also quite complex. As a result, media...more
The EU has recently laid the ground to take a more active role in the screening of foreign direct investment (FDI). On April 10, 2019, the EU formally established a framework for foreign investment screening including a...more
How could the government shutdown affect your M&A transactions? Understand the ramifications of the shutdown through the lens of antitrust, securities and exchange commission, CFIUS, export controls and economic sanctions...more
The Situation: New legislation came into force on 11 June 2018, allowing the UK Government to scrutinise a wider range of mergers that may raise public interest or national security issues. The Context: This is the outcome...more
• CFIUS takes an unprecedented step to fend off a potential foreign acquisition • The threat that China will eclipse the U.S. in telecommunications infrastructure and technology is central to U.S. national security •...more
As discussed in a prior article in this series, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is authorized to review certain cross-border mergers, acquisitions and investment transactions and to recommend that the...more
The Situation: The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division ("DOJ") has adopted new terms in recent consent decrees that enhance DOJ's ability to enforce its settlements, most importantly by lowering the evidentiary...more
As President Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on November 9 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, he surprised many by giving China "great credit" for "taking advantage of" the United States on key...more
The Situation: CFIUS recently released its annual report to Congress regarding transactions reviewed by CFIUS during 2015, as well as limited information regarding transactions reviewed during 2016....more
On September 19, 2017, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the “Committee”) released its annual report (“Report”) to Congress. One day later, CFIUS also released more limited data on foreign...more
One of the themes of the Trump campaign was the need for enhanced national security. Although the Committee of Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is not mentioned in Mr. Trump’s 100-day plan, it is highly likely...more