CFIUS and Foreign Investment Reviews

Representative experience

Secure CFIUS clearance for ALSTOM in the US$12.4bn sale of its thermal power, renewable power, and grid businesses to GE.

Provide CFIUS advice to Chinese technology company Unisplendour concerning its contemplated investment in Western Digital Corp.

Secure CFIUS clearance for Dell, Inc. regarding the US$3bn sale of its IT services business to Japanese company NTT.

Secure CFIUS approval for the sale of certain assets of General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc. subsidiary to Canadian company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.

Analysis

China adopts new rules on national security review of foreign investments

Registered Content

15 January 2021

On 19 December 2020 the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and the National Development and Reform..

News

CFIUS Q4 Developments

23 December 2020

In the fourth quarter of 2020, the major CFIUS development was the significant revision of one of CFIUS’s two mandatory filing programs. Specifically, on 15 September 15 2020, the...

News

U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Turkish Presidency of Defense Industries

17 December 2020

The State Department announced the imposition of sanctions on the Republic of Turkey’s Presidency of Defense Industries (“SSB”), and four related Turkish individuals under ...

Analysis

Chinese regulators set import license or export control requirement for certain commercial encryption products

Registered Content

15 December 2020

China's import and export regime of commercial encryption products, which has been reshap..

News

This time's for real

04 December 2020

Foreign investment control has become a key factor in M&A deals and 2020 has been an eventful year. A large number of economies have introduced foreign investment control regimes or...

Analysis

New reform of the Foreign Direct Investment regime in Spain