On October 11, 2018, Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), the SEC issued a press release announcing that it had obtained an emergency court order to stop an Initial Coin Offering (an “ICO”) by Blockvest LLC and its founder, Reginald Buddy Ringgold, III. Among other things, the company claimed that the ICO had been approved by the… Read more »
Monthly Archives: October 2018
CFIUS Guidelines for Mandatory Critical Technology Reporting
We previously reported on the updates made to the implementing legislation of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) by the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”). Among other things, FIRRMA mandated reporting of transactions that involve acquisition of critical technologies in the United States. On October 11, 2018,… Read more »