Law firms are trying harder than ever to understand the opaque interagency's rulings.
The Treasury Building in Washington D.C. The Treasury Department chairs the interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Credit: Flickr
When Aimen Mir left his job as the most senior career official at the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) in 2018, he was a hot commodity. A number of law firms were eager for his insights into an agency that has become central to the U.S.-China economic relationship.
Lawyers with Mir’s background at CFIUS, once seen as a bureaucratic backwater, haven't always been in such high demand. But as concern over Chinese acquisitions in the United States has grown, the work
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