Key Takeaways From CFIUS’s Annual Report Covering The 2014 Calendar Year
On February 19, 2016, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS” or the “Committee”), the inter-agency committee charged with reviewing foreign investments in U.S. businesses for potential national security implications, released its Annual Report to Congress detailing the Committee’s activity during calendar year 2014. The report offers an overview of the deals that came before the Committee during 2014 and provides insight into trends and touchpoints that may be helpful for parties to consider in making cross-border investments into the United States. Although the data are more than a year old, the increasing number of covered transactions involving Chinese investors, which is a major and controversial topic in the media today, is a trend clearly described in the Annual Report.