CFIUS is authorized to negotiate, enter into or enforce agreements or conditions with a party to reduce the risk to national security resulting from a covered or covered real estate transaction, where other legislation does not provide appropriate authority to deal with the risk. This includes the circumstances in which a party voluntarily decided to abandon a transaction and that mitigation measures are necessary to carry out this task and to remedy all risks associated with the transaction. CFIUS may enter into a mitigation agreement or provide a condition after it has been established that such an agreement or condition will resolve the national security risk resulting from the transaction and that it would reasonably be considered effective, verifiable and controlled in the long term. Examples of mitigation measures negotiated and adopted by the Committee are available in CFIUS`s annual report to Congress. Guidepost Solutions provides a strong environment for integrity, compliance and national security reviews. Many of our team members have held leadership positions within the U.S. intelligence community, including the Department of Justice, Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency and the FBI. We also have members of the Commerce department team who are expanding our skills. With our experience, we can serve as compliance monitors for cfius mitigation measures in a unique and effective way. Our government experience, combined with our reputation in integrity control, makes Guidepost Solutions a trusted source for cfius compliance control.

Whether you are in the early stages of investigating a covered transaction under CFIUS jurisdiction or need an independent third party to assess compliance with a mitigation agreement, we have the regulatory experience, cybersecurity functions and their independent position to support your CFIUS requirements, including: Conduct an independent review to assess compliance with the mitigation conditions specified under a national security agreement. , the insurance letter (LOA), the transfer order or any other agreed mitigation agreement. (i) enforcement of mitigation orders in an unprecedented manner; Monitoring – Enforcement manages the provisions of Subsection I (Penalties and Damages) of the 31 Parties 800 and 802 C.F.R. that authorize CFIUS to impose civil fines for violations of certain CFIUS regulations, orders and agreements. Sanctions and damages available to the CFIUS authority are available, without prejudice to other civil or criminal legal sanctions, and may, as they have done, result in referrals to national law enforcement authorities. CFIUS recently announced that in 2018 it had imposed a civil fine of $1 million on a company not recognized for “repeated violations of a 2016 CFIUS mitigation agreement, including failure to define the necessary safety guidelines and failure to submit appropriate reports to CFIUS.” This is believed to be the first fine of its kind. In the same announcement, CFIUS referred to its authority to initiate unilateral audits under the Defense Production Act. This can be interpreted as a signal that CFIUS reserves the right to reopen business for previously verified transactions due to a violation of a mitigation agreement.

The Guidepost Solutions team brings extensive experience in compliance monitoring and a thorough understanding of national security issues as part of CFIUS mitigation control. We have served on screens for international financial institutions and a global oil and gas company that implements financial regulation programs with national security. FIRRMA also contains provisions relating to the implementation of agreements between CFIUS member agencies and the parties to the transaction in order to reduce the national security problems identified in the review.