CFIUS & Foreign Direct Investment Regulation

Led CFIUS clearance and International Traffic in Arms Regulations clearance processes for the KANT joint venture formed by the combination of France’s Nexter Systems and Germany’s Krauss Maffei Wegmann group.

Assisted a U.S. aerospace manufacturer and key military supplier in obtaining CFIUS clearance for the acquisition of its parent company by a European defense firm.

Guided CJ Logistics on obtaining CFIUS clearance for the acquisition of U.S. warehousing, transportation and logistics assets.

Represented Hanwha Systems, a Korean publicly traded company, in its minority investment in EU and U.S.-based low earth satellite technology companies before CFIUS, and Hanwha Solutions in another matter involving a minority investment in a solid-state battery producer before CFIUS.

Represented EnCap in its joint sale with Apollo Global Management of Broad Reach Power, which owns and operates utility-scale standalone battery storage projects throughout the United States, to French power company Engie, for up to $1.1 billion.

Represented eMagin, a U.S. publicly traded company focused on the research and development, design, manufacturing and marketing of organic light-emitting diode miniature displays, with respect to its acquisition by Samsung Display (SDC), a Japanese company.

Counseled some of the world’s largest microchip design and manufacturing companies, as well as their customers, on compliance with U.S. and foreign government restrictions on the export of encryption technology.