LIVE WEBINAR
Cracking the CFIUS Code: Challenges to IP Rights in CFIUS Reviews of Foreign Direct Investment Transactions
Thursday, May 14, 2020 | 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Please Note: This program will be in a live webinar format — it will consist of audio-only instruction by the faculty, along with a visual aid presentation.
For New York Attorneys: This live webinar format is acceptable for all attorneys (both newly admitted and experienced) for all credit types. This includes, for newly admitted attorneys, Skills credit (through June 30, 2020, per recent guidance of the CLE Board – for more information, click here).
Program Fee:
$99 for Members | $199 for Nonmembers
Small Law Firm: $49 for Members
Members who are Recent Law Graduates, Newly Admitted Lawyers (admitted for the first time in any state or country 2018-2020), In-House/Corporate Counsel, Judges, or attorneys that practice within the Government, Academic or Not-for-Profit sectors attend this program for free.
CLE Credit:
New York: 3.0 Professional Practice
New Jersey: 3.0 General
California: 3.0 General
Pennsylvania: 2.5 General
Connecticut: Available to Licensed Attorneys
This program provides transitional/non-transitional credit to all attorneys
Description:
On January 13, 2020, the U.S. Department of Treasury (Treasury) issued as a final rule new regulations to implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA). The new regulations open the aperture of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) jurisdiction, and expand and clarify the criteria for national security reviews of foreign direct investment. As explained on Treasury’s website:
“Prior to February 13, 2020, the regulations at 31 C.F.R. part 800 focused on transactions that could result in foreign control of any U.S. business. Effective February 13, 2020, the regulations at 31 C.F.R. part 800 implement changes that FIRRMA made to CFIUS’s jurisdiction and process, including with respect to certain non-controlling “covered investments” that afford a foreign person certain access, rights, or involvement in certain types of U.S. businesses.”
Join program co-chairs, Ama A. Adams, Ropes and Gray LLP, and Roland L. Trope, Trope and Schramm LLP, and highly experienced panelists, as they provide viewers with:
- Explanation of CFIUS reviews under the final rule
- Analyses of hypothetical transactions that come within the scope of the new rule
- Analyses of the challenges that CFIUS reviews may pose to the intellectual properties of parties to “covered investments”
- Discussion of new and complex issues under CFIUS reviews and of key "take aways"
Don't miss this informative webinar.
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Program Co-Chairs:
Roland L. Trope, Trope and Schramm LLP
Ama A. Adams, Ropes & Gray LLP
Sponsoring Association Committees:
Copyright & Literary Property, Claudia E. Ray, Chair
Council on Intellectual Property, James R. Klaiber, Chair
Mergers, Acquisitions & Corporate Control Contests, Trevor Saul Norwitz, Chair
Patents, Aaron L. J. Pereira, Chair