Screen a foreign investment for a CFIUS filing
Key facts
- Human involvement
- RedLawyer-led
- How AI is used
- Extract the buyer's foreign-person facts, the U.S. business, and whether the documents describe control or a real-estate deal, each with a source page. Do not say that a declaration or notice is required, and write no filing.
- What the lawyer must review
- Treasury describes CFIUS as the interagency committee that reviews certain foreign investments in U.S. businesses, and certain real-estate transactions by foreign persons, for national security. Its site is where a declaration or notice is started. You decide whether this deal is covered and whether to file. An Australian foreign-investment approval is not a CFIUS filing. Model Rule 1.1 and Formal Opinion 512 require you to verify the facts before you advise. Do not put the data room into a public tool.
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Supporting preparation only. Potential support includes extracting and organising information. Confirm the tool’s capability and permitted scope. The tool writes nothing into the document. Substantive advice, judgement and any restricted content remain with the responsible human. |
| Lawyer | Perform the substantive analysis and decisions. Independently check any permitted supporting work and approve the exact output for its intended use. |
Checklist
- Check the current court or regulator requirements, prescribed form and attachments for the intended document and filing.
- Confirm the output against the client’s instructions and the complete relevant source material, including omissions or contradictions.
- Resolve exceptions and record the responsible lawyer’s approval of the exact output and intended use.