CFIUS

Uniquely integrated, multidisciplinary group with decades of combined experience in CFIUS, export control, government contracts and sanctions issues

Why Cooley

  • Highly active practice successfully guiding 1,000+ individual company and investor clients annually on the national security implications of foreign investments in and acquisitions of US companies

  • Deeply integrated with Cooley’s top emerging companies, venture capital, fund formation, capital markets, and M&A practices to offer clients seamless, full-spectrum representation on investment and acquisition transactions

  • Multidisciplinary team equipped to manage broad-spectrum risks by identifying potential Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) issues in the earliest stages of a transaction, conducting comprehensive CFIUS and CFIUS-adjacent due diligence, structuring transactions to manage CFIUS risk, and negotiating favorable transition terms to allocate those risks

  • Broad exposure to novel technologies and startups in all industries and verticals, providing unmatched insight into cutting-edge issues in the CFIUS ecosystem

  • Often first to encounter emergent issues in the national security space, enabling nimble solutions for CFIUS risks before they become acute or threaten a transaction; unrivaled experience representing clients confronting the rise of CFIUS enforcement, having addressed scores of post-closing CFIUS “non-notified” inquiries while helping companies and investors navigate that obscure process

  • Comprehensive and timely guidance through CooleyREG, our innovative approach that brings together regulatory practitioners from across the firm to help clients navigate every regulatory twist and turn

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The team at Cooley LLP is knowledgeable, diligent and professional.

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Cooley’s CFIUS practice is one of the top-notch practices in the world

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