Bridget McGovern, former assistant secretary for trade and economic security at DHS, joined Squire Patton as a partner in the public policy practice, the firm announced. McGovern will focus on national security and trade issues, including reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. She worked for over two years at DHS, where she served as an agency representative to CFIUS and helped implement the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List.
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Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., introduced a bill Feb. 8 that would require the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to respond to a state governor who asks whether a proposed transaction would trigger a CFIUS review.
The Treasury Department is likely to release its draft outbound investment regulations in the next several months, setting them up to potentially take effect before year's end, said foreign investment lawyer Jonathan Gafni of Linklaters.
U.S. commercial space company Momentus has completed the requirements of a 2021 national security agreement with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., the company announced last week.
Japan, which suffered economic coercion from China earlier than any other country, is largely on the same page as the U.S. when it comes to supply chain resilience and restrictions on exports, but the two diverge in their attitudes about China's role in the global economy.
Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, urged the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to investigate the proposed sale of Vista Outdoor’s Sporting Products business to Czechoslovak Group (CSG), saying the transaction could endanger national security by transferring an American manufacturer of firearms ammunition to a “Kremlin-linked” foreign company.
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Andrew Astuno, a former Treasury Department official who worked on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., has joined Clifford Chance as a CFIUS lawyer, he announced this week on LinkedIn. Astuno was a policy adviser with Treasury’s Office of Investment Security before leaving in early 2022 to join Stroock & Stroock.
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