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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Editor: Ed, please kick off the discussion.
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Monday, May 3, 2010
Editor: Please describe your respective practice areas.
Slater: We currently have about 25 lawyers and professionals in our international trade group, which is fairly sizable for a trade group. We cover all of the principal trade regulatory areas and trade-based issues, including a very significant amount of trade-remedy litigation, i.e., anti-dumping and...
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
On November 14, 2008, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued final regulations implementing the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 ("FINSA"), the statute that reforms the process by which the interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS") conducts national security reviews of mergers, acquisitions or...
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
On September 8, 2008, the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued new Economic Sanctions Enforcement Guidelines ("Guidelines") as an interim final rule establishing the new framework by which the agency will assess penalties under last year's statutory increase in the maximum penalty for most trade embargo and economic sanctions...
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
On April 23, 2008, the Treasury Department ("Treasury") issued proposed regulations to implement the Foreign Investment and National Security Act ("FINSA"), the statute Congress passed last year to reform the process by which the inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS") conducts national security reviews of mergers,...
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
The Foreign Investment and National Security Act ("FINSA"), which Congress passed last year for the purpose of reforming the process by which the inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS") conducts national security reviews of proposed acquisitions of U.S businesses by foreign persons under the Exon-Florio amendment to the...
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Saturday, September 1, 2007
The U.S. Congress has overwhelmingly passed the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 (FINSA), which fundamentally alters the process by which the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) reviews and clears proposed acquisitions of U.S. businesses by foreign persons under the so-called Exon-Florio law.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Editor's Note: Part I of this article appeared in the April, 2007 issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel discussing the importance of constructing internal compliance programs ("ICP"s) to detect and prevent a company from violating economic sanctions or export laws in keeping with the regulations set forth by the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign...
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Sunday, April 1, 2007
Introduction
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Sunday, May 1, 2005
Overview
