The US Is About to Increase Its Investment Controls. Will China Deal Lawyers Feel More Pain?

A recent executive order issued by U.S. President Joe Biden heightened the level of scrutiny of inbound deals in certain sensitive industries. And now the U.S. is weighing legislation that calls for a "reverse CFIUS," which will add government scrutiny to outbound transactions.

6 minute readOctober 30, 2022 at 08:01 PM

Jessica Seah

The US Is About to Increase Its Investment Controls. Will China Deal Lawyers Feel More Pain?

(The article was first published onLaw.com International.)

For many years now, major U.S. funds have poured billions of dollars into China's myriad of startups endorsing the likes of ByteDance Ltd.,

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