With more flights, relaxing regulations, a historic presidential trip to Cuba, and news of hospitality services expanding into Cuba, the pathway into Cuba for hotels and hospitality companies seems smooth.

On September 21, the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), and the Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), announced revised regulations further easing restrictions on transactions with Cubans and Cuban nationals involving persons subject to U.S. jurisdiction.

The U.S. further eased the economic sanctions and trade embargo against Cuba to implement the administration's policy of increasing engagement and commerce to benefit the Cuban people and American businesses.

With the recent shift in U.S. government policy regarding Cuba, is now the time for the energy industry, particularly liquefied natural gas (LNG) project developers, to consider Cuba?

Cuba's demand for trademark protection within a legal framework of fair competition is a public interest of the state as part of its current efforts to transition to a market-oriented economy.

Cuba adopted a new foreign investment law earlier this year that abolished duty-free zones and industrial parks while expanding areas for investment.

Last week, the US Supreme Court held that property confiscated by the Cuban Government after the 1959 communist revolution is permanently “tainted,” such that anyone who uses that property can be liable to the US...

As Cuba opens the country for foreign investment and as U.S. interest in playing a role in Cuba grows, some Cuban experts assert that despite the U.S. embargo, an investment in Cuba is not necessarily off-limits to U.S. businesses or individuals.

On April 17, 2019, the United States made the historic decision to cease suspension of Title III of the Cuba Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (commonly called the "Helms-Burton Act").

Cuba's National Assembly passed the Cuban Foreign Investment Act of 2014 earlier this year, authorizing foreign investment in all sectors other than health and education for its population and military institutions (with the exception of the military commercial system).