An overview of the U.S. outbound screening program and considerations for private and public actors

CELIS Update on Investment Screening - November 2023

By John Kabealo, Founding Partner, Kabealo PLLC On October 28, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury finalized its highly anticipated regulations to implement Executive Order 14105, Regulating outbound U.S. investments in countries and sectors that may pose national security concerns for the United States. The regulations finalize the draft regulations published June 21, 2024…

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Update on Outbound Investment Screening: Current Developments in the EU and US

CELIS Update on Investment Screening - November 2023

By Konstantin Ahlers, PhD Candidate at the Leibniz Universität Hannover 1. Introduction  Since the European Commission added the regulation of Outbound Investments onto its 2023 Working Program in fall 2022 and President Biden signed the Executive order to restrict Outbound Investments by US- persons in summer 2023, a lot has happened in regard of Outbound…

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CFIUS should steel itself from domestic presidential politics. On Biden’s public intervention on the Nippon Steel-US Steel Acquisition

CELIS Update on Investment Screening - December 2023

By Thomas P. Feddo, founder of The Rubicon Advisors LLC and former Assistant Treasury Secretary for Investment Security (2019-2021)   This blogpost elaborates on the opinion piece ‘Biden, CFIUS and the US Steel Acquisition’ authored by Feddo and published on the Wall Street Journal (15 April 2024)   In December 2023, Nippon Steel and US…

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