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Wiley Rein LLP

CFIUS 2024 Annual Report: Compliance, Enforcement, and Non‑Notified Transactions – What Dealmakers Need to Know

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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) recently released the public version of its Annual Report to Congress for calendar year 2024. Key trends include an increase in formal inquiries into...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

How Overseas Investors Can Navigate Broad Reach of Federal Government's CFIUS Real Estate Reviews in the Carolinas

There are more than 500 miles that separate the western, more mountainous region of North Carolina from the U.S. state’s eastern shorelines. It’s an expansive area that, depending on traffic, can take close to 9 hours to...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

New CFIUS Developments Signal Heightened Attention on Enforcement: 4 Areas to Watch

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The recent developments signal a renewed vigor to protect US national security. This Client Alert highlights the following recent developments relating to national security investment reviews conducted by the Committee on...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

CFIUS Abruptly Imposes New Notice Filing Fees

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Beginning May 1, 2020, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) will require a filing fee in connection with any formal notice of a “covered transaction” or a “covered real estate transaction.” The...more

Morgan Lewis

CFIUS’s Final Real Estate Regulations: Still a Largely Voluntary Process

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The CFIUS real estate regulations reflect a new emphasis on real estate transactions based on proximity to military installations and certain critical infrastructure, requiring careful analysis when deciding whether a real...more

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The New CFIUS ‘Geographic Reference Tool’ – Handle With Care

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Released last month by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, the Geographic Reference Tool is a useful starting point in determining what constitutes covered real estate transactions, but does not provide...more

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FAQs on CFIUS and FIRRMA

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What is CFIUS? The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is an interagency committee charged with reviewing transactions involving foreign investment in the U.S. and certain real estate transactions for...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

CFIUS Proposes Filing Fees

To further implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”), the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) has issued proposed regulations that would require parties to...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Proposed CFIUS filing fees for foreign investments announced

For the first time in its history, the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) plans to require the payment of fees in connection with the submission of full notifications for covered foreign...more

Foster Garvey PC

Uncle Sam Is Watching: New Risks in Making Real Estate Deals With Foreigners

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Beginning this month, the U.S. government can now block foreigners from taking possession of real estate anywhere in the country when it concludes the deal may threaten U.S. national security. In the past, only foreign...more

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Exceptions to Coverage for “Excluded” Foreign Investors and States and Investment Funds From the Expanded CFIUS Jurisidiction

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As discussed in the initial article on the new CFIUS regulations, there are two important exceptions from coverage that need to be evaluated in determining what, if any, steps need to be taken to ensure compliance with the...more

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CFIUS Begins Review Process for Real Estate Transactions by a Foreign Investor

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Growing concern about foreign surveillance and intelligence gathering led Congress to provide CFIUS with authority to review real estate transactions by foreign parties when it passed FIRRMA... Prior to FIRRMA, CFIUS began to...more

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

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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

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

CFIUS finalizes expanded jurisdiction over foreign transactions in U.S. real estate

On January 17, 2020, the U.S. Treasury Department published final rules in the Federal Register implementing the Foreign Risk Review Modernization Act (“FIRRMA”), one of which implements FIRRMA’s provisions regarding foreign...more

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FIRRMA Regulations Finalized

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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) published two final rules on January 17, 2019, to implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA) enacted in August 2018. The first...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

From CFIUS, With Love: The FIRRMA Regulations

The most pressing question around the new FIRRMA regulations is “Will my transaction be covered?” To provide a bit of guidance on that point, we present an illustration from our upcoming Second Edition of The CFIUS Book due...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

CFIUS Excepted Investors: Canada, United Kingdom and Australia

On January 13, 2020, the U.S. Department of Treasury published final regulations relating to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS.  The regulations implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

New CFIUS Rules – Eight Key Points

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

Goulston & Storrs PC

CFIUS Jurisdiction over Real Estate Transactions Expanded: Foreign Investors Should Take Notice

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The Trump administration continues to expand the powers of the US government to block foreign investment in the U.S. on national security grounds. In 1975, President Gerald Ford established the Committee on Foreign Investment...more

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CFIUS and Its Proposed Regulations Expanding Jurisdiction - Foreign Investment in the United States will Face More National...

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Investment Security published proposed regulations on September 24 (“Proposed Regulations”). Under the Proposed Regulations, more foreign investment transactions will be subject...more

Jones Day

Facing FIRRMA: Expanded CFIUS Jurisdiction Over Real Estate Transactions

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The Situation: The U.S. Department of the Treasury ("Treasury") proposed regulations that for the first time subject certain real estate transactions to the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United...more

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Facing FIRRMA: Proposed Regulations Expand Scope of CFIUS National Security Review Process

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The Situation: The U.S. Department of the Treasury ("Treasury") proposed regulations that expand the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS" or the "Committee") to review foreign...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

US Treasury Department Publishes Proposed Regulations to Implement FIRRMA: 10 Key Questions Answered

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CFIUS has offered a one-month comment period for proposed rulemaking to implement provisions of CFIUS legislation passed in August 2018. More than a year ago, in August 2018, US President Donald Trump signed the Foreign...more

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CFIUS Publishes New Proposed Regulations

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The US Department of the Treasury recently published for public comment two proposed regulations that will expand the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and make substantive...more

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Proposed Rule Expands CFIUS Jurisdiction to Real Estate Investments That Pose a National Security Risk; Could Have Major Impacts...

What is CFIUS? The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, is an interagency committee chaired by the Secretary of the Treasury which is authorized to review and approve transactions involving foreign...more

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