Aug 11, 2023 President Biden Issues Outbound Investment Restrictions Executive Order – Small Yard, High Fence? By Aimen Mir Christine Laciak Colin Costello Timothy Swartz Mark Appleton +2 more... Show less On Wednesday, August 9, 2023, President Biden issued Executive Order 14105, Addressing United States Investments in Certain National...
Aug 10, 2023 CFIUS 2022 Annual Report – Rough Seas Ahead for Investors By Aimen Mir Christine Laciak Colin Costello Ahmad Al Dajani +1 more... Show less The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) has released its annual report for calendar year 2022. Although a...
Dec 09, 2022 Historic FCC action banning technologies from certain Chinese companies signals continuing U.S. targeting of market-leading Chinese technologies By Aimen Mir Nabeel Yousef Brock Dahl Colin Costello Donna Faye Imadi +2 more... Show less Over a year ago, Congress passed the Secure Equipment Act of 2021, mandating that the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) block the...
Sep 23, 2022 New CFIUS Executive Order Reflects Evolved CFIUS National Security Risk Analysis By Aimen Mir Christine Laciak Colin Costello Timothy Swartz +1 more... Show less On 15 September 2022, President Biden signed Executive Order 14083 (Executive Order on Ensuring Robust Consideration of Evolving National...
Jun 27, 2022 8th Annual Berkeley Spring Forum on M&A and the Boardroom By Ethan Klingsberg Thank you to the over 200 in-person and several hundred virtual attendees at the 8th Annual Berkeley Spring Forum on M&A and the...
Jan 14, 2022 There’s a new CFIUS Excepted Foreign State, but status will still benefit relatively few investors By Aimen Mir Christine Laciak Colin Costello Qualifying investors from a list of “Excepted Foreign States” (colloquially referred to as the “whitelist”) enjoy certain privileges...
Jan 10, 2022 Freshfields partner Aimen Mir talks CFIUS, FI Monitor with The M&A Journal By Aimen Mir Washington-based partner Aimen Mir, who served in several leadership roles in the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS) and...
Jan 06, 2022 CFIUS Decision on Magnachip Deal Shows Long Reach of CFIUS By Aimen Mir Christine Laciak Colin Costello On December 13, 2021, Magnachip Semiconductor Corporation (“Magnachip”), an NYSE-listed Delaware corporation, and Wise Road Capital LTD...
Dec 16, 2021 Board Memo 2022: Sustainability and Beyond By Pamela Marcogliese Elizabeth Bieber Sebastian Fain Freshfields is pleased to announce our annual Board Memo 2022: Sustainability and Beyond. This year’s report focuses on guiding boards...
Apr 09, 2021 Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain Rule Goes into Effect By Aimen Mir Nabeel Yousef Christine Laciak Colin Costello +1 more... Show less As of March 2021, the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) has the authority to block or impose conditions on the ordinary course...
Mar 22, 2021 Takeaways from the 7th Annual Berkeley Spring Forum on M&A and Governance By Ethan Klingsberg Thank you to the hundreds of attendees, as well as the speakers and panelists, at the 7th Annual Berkeley Spring Forum on M&A and...
Feb 03, 2021 Expansion of CFIUS’s monitoring and enforcement capabilities has raised the stakes of getting it right when deciding to voluntarily file a transaction By Aimen Mir Christine Laciak Colin Costello A recent Wall Street Journal article described how the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (“CFIUS;” “the Committee”) is using...