Keeping up with CFIUS: A Practitioner’s Report on National Security Trends in the United States

Since the enactment of Foreign Investment Risk Review and Modernization Act 2018, Committee on in United States (or CFIUS or Committee), has enjoyed some its broadest authority since establishment almost fifty years ago. Tasked with screening cross-border transactions that ‘threaten to impair national security States’, discretion define ‘national security’, historically definition evolved with, among other elements, geopolitical tenor day. Most recently, Committee’s focus been mostly foreign investment U.S. businesses involved sensitive personal data, critical technologies infrastructure.