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Corporate Counsel

In-House Counsel Need To Know: CFIUS Rules for Critical Infrastructure Are Coming, and They're Not What You Think

As the scope of national security scrutiny expands, lawyers say more and more companies may come under a regulatory microscope.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

CFIUS Rules for Critical Infrastructure Are Coming, and They’re Not What You Think

As the scope of national security scrutiny expands, lawyers say more and more companies may come under a regulatory microscope.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

CFIUS Issues More Guidance for Dealmakers, Lawyers Say

The updated FAQs provide new insight on the specific circumstances that would trigger the need for review of an investment fund transaction, but they are still very fact-specific and should be reviewed on a case-by-case basis with counsel, lawyers say.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

CFIUS Imposes 'Historic' $1M Penalty for Breach of Mitigation Agreement

The unprecedented civil penalty was imposed in 2018 without fanfare but was published on its resource page along with annual reports to Congress.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Democrats Urge FBI Probe of Spa Owner Offering Trump Access

In a letter to the FBI, Democrats on the House and Senate judiciary and intelligence panels wrote that reports about Li Yang "raise serious counterintelligence concerns."
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

US Sanction of Russian Bank Shows OFAC's Broad Reach, Says Former Treasury Official

A former senior sanctions policy adviser for the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control described the Evrofinance sanction as a “two-for-one” move that ratchets up the pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and shows that “dealing with state-owned Russian financial institutions is a high-risk proposition.”
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Focus on CFIUS Pilot Program Doesn't Change Need for Traditional Risk Analysis: Experts

“Just because you don't have to submit a mandatory declaration doesn't mean you don't have CFIUS issues,” said Kenneth J. Nunnenkamp, an international trade and national security partner at Morgan Lewis' Washington, D.C., office.
5 minute read

International Edition

Government Shutdown Delays CFIUS National Security Reviews

Law firms and their clients are not only experiencing delays in the reviews currently filed, but they can expect a worsening backlog once the shutdown is over.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

Government Shutdown Holds Up CFIUS National Security Reviews

Law firms and their clients are not only experiencing delays in the reviews currently filed, but they can expect a worsening backlog once the shutdown is over.
6 minute read

International Edition

China's Investment in US and Europe Hits Six-Year Low

China's combined investment into North America and Europe dropped 73 percent in 2018.
5 minute read

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