The sale is subject to approval by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
An attempted buyout of 3Com in 2007 collapsed after an investigation by the Committee on Foreign Investment In The United States.
Timothy Geithner, claiming that the executive order as well as a previous order issued by the Committee On Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) violate the U.S. constitution.
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An interagency group known as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) took a hard look at the proposal and, quite sensibly, rejected it on national security grounds.
The merger was extended for the third time, now that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) decided that it will commence on a 45 day investigation into the acquisition.
Given such considerations, the question occurs: How could even a stacked deck like the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States find it possible to approve the Dubai Ports World's transaction?
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States recently approved the sale of Complete Genomics, based in Mountain View, California to China-based BGI (formerly known as the Beijing Genomics Institute).
Huawei and former 3Leaf executives say they didn't think the acquisition required a review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., or CFIUS, because they didn't buy all of the company's assets.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) is responsible for analyzing the national security implications, if any, of prospective mergers and acquisitions which involve the purchase of American companies by international investors.
After several days of defiance, Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei announced Monday that it would abide a recommendation from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) that it divest of U.S. technology company 3-Leaf.
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Last year, in the wake of the firestorm concerning Dubai's proposed take-over of American ports, Congress enacted legislation to strengthen the hand of security-minded federal agencies involved in the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
This afternoon, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) will hold discussions with representatives of the Netherlands' company known as ASML, the world's second largest manufacturer of lithography machines used to produce high-quality silicon chips.
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In a joint statement, Sprint and Softbank said they had received notice from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) that it had completed its review of the proposed deal and had found no unresolved issues.
This is not the first time this interagency panel - called the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) - has made an astounding call about the transfer of control of strategically sensitive U.S. assets to questionable purchasers.
An interagency panel called the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which looks at foreign investments for any national-security risk, has informally adopted what one official calls a "hard-look doctrine" toward any Russian attempts to invest in critical American industries.
Such an organization, modeled after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), whose deliberations are informed by the expertise of the Departments of Justice, Defense, State and the intelligence community, should be co-chaired by the Treasury Department and the NSC.
The question is not whether the ill-advised decision taken last week by the secretive Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (known by its acronym, CFIUS, pronounced syphius) will be undone.
The Treasury Department's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States said Wednesday that it hadn't found any national security reasons to prevent it.
The transaction is subject to review by the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment, which evaluates the potential national security effects of transactions.
Unfortunately, as things stand now, the only impediments to the early transfer of a true national asset to a potentially problematic foreign owner are two, all-too-often pro forma bureaucratic exercises: the grant of a Federal Communications Commission license to transfer ownership and a possible Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) review.
The 33-year-old committee on foreign investment, CFIUS, is also refining its process for examining deals that might threaten security.
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