The U.S. Department of the Treasury recently announced that it plans to create a fast track process to facilitate greater investment in U.S. businesses from ally and partner sources.
“The United States benefits from the strong and stable investments of our allies and partners,” Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent said. “Treasury is committed to maintaining and enhancing the open investment environment that benefits our economy, while making sure that process efficiencies do not diminish our ability to identify and address national security risks that can accompany foreign investment.”
The process will include the launch of a Known Investor portal. The portal will allow the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), an interagency, to collect information from foreign investors in advance of a filing. The process will begin as a pilot project and build over time.
CFIUS is authorized to review certain transactions involving foreign investment in the United States in order to determine the effect of the transactions on the national security. The committee also can review certain real estate transactions by foreign persons.
The Treasury is focused on increasing efficiencies in the CFIUS process to facilitate greater investment from allies and partners where there is verifiable distance and independence from foreign adversaries or threat actors.