CFIUS’s New Tools to Review: Foreign Investments in US Businesses and Real Estate

Paul Giordano, Principal, Enfinite Capital LLC, USA

While US policymakers continue to recognize the many economic benefits of foreign investment in the United States, their growing concerns over foreign control of or access to sensitive US technologies, infrastructure and personal data led to a significant expansion of the US Government’s powers to review inbound foreign acquisitions and investments from a national security perspective. The Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (’FIRRMA