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Brian Kim

Brian Kim is an associate in the firm’s Washington, DC office and a member of the CFIUS Practice Group. He advises clients on the U.S. national security review process administered by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and related reviews conducted by the interagency working group known as Team Telecom. Brian also advises clients on sensitive national security investigations and compliance matters, including mitigation agreements with CFIUS and issues under the National Industrial Security Program (NISPOM) and the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) in proceedings related to the mitigation of foreign ownership, control, or influence (FOCI). Brian regularly advises on matters involving China and the region, supply chain security, and other U.S.-China policy issues.

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On March 21, 2023, the Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Commerce Proposed Rule”) to implement certain provisions of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (“CHIPS Act”) that place restrictions on certain activities of businesses receiving federal funding pursuant to the CHIPS Act (“Commerce Guardrails”).  On the same day, the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) also published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (together with the Commerce Proposed Rule, the “Proposed Rules”) to implement the Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit (“ITC”), including its own restrictions on certain activities that, in broad strokes, parallel the Commerce Guardrails (together with Commerce Guardrails, “CHIPS Guardrails”) (Covington alert).  Continue Reading National Security Update – Departments of Commerce and Treasury Release Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Regarding CHIPS “Guardrails”