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After four years of an "America First" trade approach, the new Biden administration is looking to rebalance U.S. trade policies and rebuild international relationships.

Geopolitical tensions and disruptions to the global market have continued to rise in recent years. It should come as no surprise, then, that 2023 saw the rollout of several new trade...

ACI held its annual CFIUS conference from April 27 to 28 in Washington, D.C., bringing together practitioners and government officials to discuss a range of CFIUS topics.

On September 15, President Biden signed an Executive Order clarifying the factors that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US ("CFIUS") may use to determine whether a transaction poses a risk to U.S. national security.

The ballad of export violations continues. The Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) imposed a $300 million civil penalty against Seagate US and Seagate Singapore...

On 23 January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from the Trans Pacific Partnership. What's left for those companies interested in doing business in the country? Our local expert explains.

The Supreme Court's majority opinion in "Morrison v. National Australia Bank, Ltd." may be as significant for its "bright-line" approach to the presumption against the extraterritorial application of federal legislation as it may be for curbing foreign securities-fraud class actions in an era of increasing global transactions.

In April 2023, we published an overview of the BE-12, a benchmark survey conducted every five years by the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis ...

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) reviews foreign investments in U.S. businesses for the impact of these investments on national security.

On October 27, 2009, Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) and Representative Charles Rangel (D-New York), chairmen of the Congressional tax writing committees, unveiled the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2009 (the “Bill”).

The US Treasury Department has issued its first civil penalty under the Outbound Investment Security Program, fining a venture capital firm $200,000 for failing to notify authorities of an investment in a Chinese AI company. This enforcement action signals heightened scrutiny of US investments in China's advanced technology sectors and raises critical questions about compliance obligations for companies with foreign subsidiaries.

The uncertain macroeconomic conditions of recent years have created a cautious investment climate globally.

On June 30, 2020, United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced legislation proposing the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

The Committee published similar determinations with respect to Canada and Australia in January 2022.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS" or the "Committee") recently issued two new frequently-asked-questions ("FAQs") on its website.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia — to be heard by Judge Amir Ali — seeking to enforce President Trump's...

Ninety-eight (98) member states of the WTO are negotiating an international agreement on investment facilitation, which would be the first of its kind.

Last month, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) released its Annual Report to Congress covering 2021. The key takeaway is that CFIUS is more active than ever...