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A Golden Share and an Order to Unwind: Early Lessons in CFIUS from the New Administration

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

Husch Blackwell LLP

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

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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

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for June 2025

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more

Foley Hoag LLP - White Collar Law &...

Are There Legitimate Ways to Achieve More Advantageous Tariff Classifications?

With recent increases in U.S. tariffs and the increasing complexity of determining applicable duties for different products, importers are looking for ways to reduce their tariff exposure. Since a product’s tariff treatment...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

A Roadmap for Export Controls? Project 2025 and the Future of U.S. Exports – Part I

The second Trump administration has come flying out of the starting blocks on international trade policy actions—imposing and rescinding, shaping and reshaping tariffs, sanctions, and export controls. The executive orders and...more

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An In-House Compliance Guide for Responding to President Trump's Executive Order on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement

As has widely been published, on February 10, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order (EO) 14209, which paused all future investigations and enforcement actions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for at least...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Trump Administration’s First Export Control Action – Reading the Tea Leaves

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On March 25, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced a significant expansion of its Entity List restrictions, adding 80 entities from China, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa,...more

WilmerHale

Fact Sheet: Trump March 4 Trade Actions on Canada, Mexico, China

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On February 1, President Trump issued two Executive Orders (EOs) announcing the imposition of a 25% tariff on products of Canada (10% on energy products) and Mexico, effective February 4. On February 3, the President...more

Snell & Wilmer

Reevaluating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement: A New Paradigm

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On February 10, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order (E.O.) directing a shift in the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The order effectively pauses new FCPA investigations and enforcement...more

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Enforcement under the Trump Administration: Reports of the FCPA’s Death are Exaggerated

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On February 10, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order (the “EO”) directing the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) to pause new Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) investigations and enforcement actions for 180...more

Fisher Phillips

Trump Rolls Back Biden’s AI Executive Order and Makes AI Infrastructure Push: Key Takeaways for Employers

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In the first few whirlwind days of President Trump’s new administration, the White House enacted a sweeping shift in AI policy: rescinding President Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence on Monday and announcing...more

Snell & Wilmer

Hitting the Ground Running: Trump’s Promised Tariffs on February 1, 2025

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As President Trump begins his second term, the absence of tariffs among the more than 200 executive orders signed on his first day in office was a notable deviation from expectations. However, the President announced plans to...more

A&O Shearman

Global M&A Insights Q4 2024 - introduction

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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

Vinson & Elkins LLP

White Collar and Corporate Criminal Enforcement in the Trump 2.0 Era

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When President-Elect Donald J. Trump takes office on January 20, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ” or the “Department”) is certain to be at the center of the action and conversation in Washington, D.C.—just as it...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Sanctions Puzzle: Key Areas To Watch in 2025 and Beyond

The past weeks and months have brought about tremendous political change in the West, as we move toward a new U.S. administration, a new College of Commissioners in Brussels and a new Polish presidency of the Council of the...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Quarterly Cartel Catch-Up: Recent Developments In Criminal Antitrust For Busy Corporate Counsel – 1st Quarter 2021

A new year, a new administration in the United States, and new cartel enforcement leadership in the United Kingdom have begun. In the United States, first-of-their-kind criminal charges have been brought involving labor and...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Trump Administration Bars U.S. Investments in Certain Chinese Companies Linked to Chinese Military

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On November 12, 2020, President Trump issued Executive Order 139591 (“the Order”) that will shortly bar any U.S. person from “any transaction in publicly traded securities, or any securities that are derivative of, or are...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Focus on Foreign Access to Technology and Data Continues as CFIUS — and Others — Flex National Security Muscles

With strengthened legislative mandates and significant regulatory reform in place, the U.S. government’s national security focus on protecting sensitive technology and data continues to gather steam. Although exactly what...more

Pillsbury - Global Trade & Sanctions Law

CFIUS Update: Chinese Company Ordered to Divest Acquisition of U.S. Hotel Software Company

On March 6, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order (“EO”) instructing the Chinese company Beijing Shiji Information Technology Co., Ltd. (“Shiji”) to divest its acquisition of StayNTouch, Inc., a U.S.-based software...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Final Regulations on Expanded Authority of CFIUS to Review Foreign Investor Transactions Go into Effect

Eighteen months after President Trump signed the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (“FIRRMA”) which broadened the power of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) to review foreign...more

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US Administration Tests the Water on New Unheard-of Government Review of International Technology Transactions

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Under this new evaluation process, Commerce can prohibit companies from engaging in a wide variety of transactions and order them to cease using the information technology or telecommunication system in question even if it is...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

New Foreign Investment Restrictions on the Horizon in Tech, Infrastructure and Data

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U.S. companies in tech, infrastructure and data seeking foreign investment will require approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) before closing certain transactions. Last year, President...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

CFIUS in the Face of a Prolonged Government Shutdown: What It Means for Deals

As has been widely reported, the U.S. federal government partially shut down at midnight on December 22, 2018. While the shutdown continues to impact numerous government agencies and related constituencies, a key shutdown for...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

CFIUS Past, Present, and Future: A 2018 CFIUS Carol

CFIUS Past, Present, and Future: A 2018 CFIUS Carol - The year 2018 was a turning point in the history of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). CFIUS’s change in direction in 2017 suggested that a...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

CFIUS: China Deals That Can Still Be Done

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

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