Lately there has been much chatter about Environmental, Social, and Governance ("ESG") policies in business. Elon Musk has called ESG "an outrageous scam."

Cutting-edge technology is often a vital component for businesses seeking to expand their commercial market share.

On February 28, 2024, the U.S. Department of State and The Boeing Company (Boeing) agreed to an administrative settlement regarding 199 violations by Boeing of the Arms...

On March 11, 2026, the Office of the United States Trade Representative ("USTR") announced the initiation of a new set of investigations under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 focused on the acts, policies...

U.S. economic sanctions are laws and regulations imposed by the U.S. government, related to specified foreign policy, national security, or other policy grounds,...

Section 22 CFR §740.20 of the Export Administration Regulations ("EAR") provides for the Strategic Trade Authorization ("STA") license exception.

On July 26, 2023, the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force ("FLETF"), chaired by the Department of Homeland Security, issued updates to its Strategy to Prevent the Importation of Goods Mined...

Conducting comprehensive due diligence analysis prior to entering in a domestic or international transaction is critical to a successful risk management strategy for trade.

The table below presents a structured timeline of executive actions, policy directives, and trade-related decisions issued by President Trump’s administration from January 2025 to the present. It focuses on critical areas such as tariffs, economic sanctions (OFAC), the priorities of the Department of Justice, customs regulations, and broader trade and economic policies.

On December 28, 2023, a federal court sentenced New Hampshire charity NuDay (a/k/a NuDay Syria) to five years of probation – the maximum sentence for an organizational defendant – for three counts...

Given the current administration's ambitious agenda of deregulation, prioritization of American interests, and reshaping of the federal workforce, legal professionals have been deep in the trenches...

In September 2019, OFAC designated the CBI under terrorism-related sanctions authorities, which appeared to prohibit CBI's involvement in processing payments for humanitarian-related transactions...

A new policy at the U.S. Department of Justice pertaining to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act/anti-corruption compliance has recently sent shockwaves through the corporate compliance community.

According to a survey conducted during the government shutdown, the vast majority of transaction parties (90.7%) experienced significant or moderate delays with CFIUS...

In our recent article Amid TikTok Tensions, CFIUS Signals Increased Enforcement and Other Updates, we discussed updates from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS" or "the Committee") primarily with respect to enforcement.

As TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew was facing (often contentious) questions from members of Congress during a four and a half hour hearing on March 23, 2023...

On June 9, 2021, Momentus Inc., a U.S. commercial space company offering in-space transportation and infrastructure services, as a condition to its acquisition by a foreign-owned company...

On May 1, 2025, the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) approved a new highly anticipated version of the Certificate...

On October 7, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security ("BIS") announced a major new rule that restricts the ability of the People's Republic of China ("PRC" or "China")

The sad fact of forced labor in global supply chains cannot be denied.