Proposed regulations for national security reviews of deals under CFIUS involving "sensitive personal data" will likely mean scrutiny of many more transactions.
M&A, real estate purchases, and corporate investments could all be affected by proposed new regulations for expanded review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.
With storm clouds gathering on the horizon, now is the time for treasury and finance to leverage new technologies in anticipation of supporting the business through the next recession.
"Now's the time to be ramping up your effort" to obtain exclusions, said Jason Waite, a partner at Alston & Bird who leads the firm's international trade and regulatory group in Washington, D.C. But he warned that there are "still a lot of unknowns."