Topics covered in this issue include: 

Colin Bumby recently joined Kramer Levin's Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity practices as a partner in New York. In this Q&A, Colin discusses what influenced him to become a deal lawyer and how he navigates the challenges of private equity deals.

In this M&A Monitor article, Richard H. Gilden and Abbe L. Dienstag examine the final regulations updating and refining rules regarding transaction reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States. These regulations, which until now have been in interim form, implement the previously enacted Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018.

Samantha V. Ettari, Alan R. Friedman and Daniel Lennard summarize the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations' recently released “Observations on Cybersecurity and Resiliency Practices."