Big Law Looks to Faster Security Reviews to Spur M&A: The Brief

Hopes for M&A Growth Spurred by Trump’s Faster Security Review

BIG LAW M&A practitioners view the recent rise in deal activity as more than a blip after two years of stagnation, fueled in part by a Trump administration policy aimed at speeding national security reviews of transactions with a foreign connection, Mahira Dayal reports

• President Donald Trump’s America First Investment Policy reduced the stipulations used by the US Treasury Department’s CFIUS, which reviews such deals under a 75-year-old law and can wave them forward, block them, or require extra steps known as mitigation. In 2023, companies notified CFIUS of 233 ...