Mandatory Reporting Requirements for Certain New Foreign Direct Investments in the US in 2015 Explored!

Thomas G. Appleman focuses his practice on inbound and outbound foreign direct investment and multi-national cross border mergers, acquisitions and joint venture transactions.

He also helps U.S. clients take their products and services into the global marketplace by expanding their operations into Europe, China, India, Mexico, Brazil, South Korea and countries with emerging markets including Pakistan and Slovakia, and represents foreign businesses in establishing operations and joint ventures in North America.

With his colleagues, Tom helps clients around the world with their global legal and business needs including planning and coordinating legal diligence reviews, navigating complex legal and regulatory requirements, securing tax and economic development incentives, licensing and protecting patents and other intellectual property, negotiating agreements with customers and vendors, meeting immigration requirements, navigating trade and custom issues, and facilitating dispute resolution.

Will has 20 years of experience advising clients in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and capitalization and finance transactions. He assists investors in venture capital and real estate investments, and provides counsel to a number of non-U.S. companies and their U.S. subsidiaries. Will also has formed and advised numerous services- and capital-based limited liability companies, limited partnerships and other business entities.

Matt advises domestic and international companies on mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures. He represents clients in capital raising and financing transactions, such as public offerings, private equity transactions and debt financings. Matt’s practice also encompasses securities law compliance and disclosure matters, including reporting under the Securities Exchange Act. In addition, he has experience in shareholder control, buy-sell arrangements and other corporate formation matters for emerging businesses.

Brian Curran advises clients on international trade compliance matters, including those involving the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and economic sanctions programs administered by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Brian also has extensive experience advising clients on national security reviews conducted by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Brian served for 10 years as an analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he held a TS/SCI clearance.

Amy E. D’Agostino’s diverse corporate practice focuses on areas such as corporate governance, antitrust compliance, compliance with the FCPA/UK Bribery Act, compliance with International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act (Bureau of Economic Analysis), transactional matters, licensing transactions, securities, strategic alliances, corporate partnering, tax planning and working with high-net-worth individuals in connection with their closely held domestic and international organizations.

Amy is an expert advisor related to compliance obligations required pursuant to the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act (the Act).  Amy provides practical advice for limiting excessive public reporting burdens imposed by the government through the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) which is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce.  In 2013, Amy was called upon based on her expertise of this little known statute by Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C. to assist the firm and its new compliance branch, Porzio Compliance Services, LLC to develop a compliance module to ease reporting burdens.

Amy handles corporate structuring, financing and tax planning for the entertainment industry and provides a broad range of corporate advice to media and entertainment companies.

Amy also has experience in advising tax-exempt organizations (including private foundations and trade associations), start-up ventures, due diligence matters, employment matters, intellectual property and negotiation.