Foreign Investment Watch Quotes Laura Black on CFIUS Excepted States

For its article “The UK and New Zealand to remain excepted foreign states. Big whoop?,” Foreign Investment Watch quoted Akin international trade senior counsel Laura Black. The article looks at the decision by the U.S. Treasury Department to keep the U.K. and New Zealand as “excepted foreign states,” thereby excepting qualifying investors from those countries from review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).

Among her quotes, Black, who served as former Director of Policy and International Relations at CFIUS, said that the Committee has been working hard to engage allies and partners to address transnational risks from certain foreign investment “and to encourage and support national security focused investment reviews abroad.”