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Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan and New Executive Orders Offer Strategic Opportunities and Legal Risks for Private...

Husch Blackwell LLP on 7/28/2025

Key Point: “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” the Trump Administration’s summary approach to federal artificial intelligence (AI) policy, and three new Executive Orders (EO) propose a wide-ranging federal strategy...more

Insights from OFAC Enforcement Actions So Far

Oberheiden P.C. on 11/7/2023

Each year, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) initiates several enforcement actions targeting companies, financial institutions, and individuals in the United States and abroad. These enforcement actions can present...more

Russian Countersanctions: New Measures Targeting Foreign Investors in Russia

A&O Shearman on 5/12/2023

Fourteen months into the Ukraine war, the Russian Government has introduced new countersanctions targeting foreign investors in Russia. The latest measures require businesses from “unfriendly” countries to make a “voluntary...more

US Drops New Export Controls on the Chinese Semiconductor, Advanced Computing, and Supercomputer Industries

ArentFox Schiff on 10/11/2022

On Friday, October 7, 2022, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released an interim final rule containing an enormous set of export controls that will likely damage the Chinese semiconductor, advanced computing, and...more

Summer Vacation’s Over: Commerce Imposes New Russia and Belarus Export Controls

ArentFox Schiff on 9/27/2022

Well, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) waited until the summer was over, but timing may be the best part of the new export controls on Russia and Belarus (the “Rule”). Understanding the new Rule and how the old...more

Biden Administration Toughens Sanctions, Export Controls in Response to Continued Harmful Activities of the Russian Government

Wiley Rein LLP on 9/21/2022

On September 15, 2022, the Biden Administration announced a new package of sanctions and export controls to hold the Russian government accountable for its war against Ukraine. ...more

Corporate Governance: 2022 Midyear Review

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer on 7/5/2022

The first half of 2022 illuminated important trends in the corporate governance space. In recent months, there were notable developments in the enforcement of economic sanctions and export control measures, and the oversight...more

BIS Releases Interim Final Rule on Export Controls for Cybersecurity Items

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 11/5/2021

After several years of foreign and domestic negotiations surrounding controls on intrusion software, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry & Security (BIS) published an interim final rule on October 21, 2021,...more

Reminder Regarding the Jurisdictional Reach and Limits of U.S. Export Control, Sanctions, and Foreign Investment Regulations

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 9/21/2020

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

New EU Investment Screening Rules: 10 Key Things Dealmakers Need to Know

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 5/10/2019

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

Transferring Data from China: Who Must First Pass a Pre-Export Security Assessment?

McDermott Will & Schulte on 12/26/2017

China’s new data protection framework clearly creates a requirement for local storage and conducting a security assessment before personal information or important data is shared with other jurisdictions, but it is currently...more

Spoofing, Sports and the Panama Papers: BakerHostetler Offers Mid-Year Review of Cross-Border Government Investigations and...

BakerHostetler on 9/16/2016

Halfway through 2016, the international community has seen a staggering variety of cross-border investigations and enforcement actions. Brexit, the release of the Panama Papers, allegations of widespread sports doping and the...more

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