U.S. Senators Raise Questions About CFIUS and Real Estate Transactions

On May 16, 2017, Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) formally requested that the U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) undertake a study to assess how the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) evaluates real estate transactions in the United States.