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CFIUS Annual Report to Congress: What Dealmakers Should Know

Recently, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”), an inter-agency committee authorized to review transactions that could result in the control of a U.S. business by a foreign person (“covered transactions”) in order to determine the effect of such transactions on the national security of the United States, released its unclassified Annual Report to Congress for the 2014 calendar year (the “Annual Report”).