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On June 6, 2024, Premier Li Qiang signed a State Council decree introducing the Regulation on Fair Competition Reviews (the Regulation) effective August 1. According to the Regulation, administrative agencies and...more
On April 11, 2024, the Treasury Department announced a prepublication copy of a proposed rule amending the regulations of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS") (the "Proposed Rule")....more
In an effort to give the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) more “bite,” yesterday the Committee published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NRPM) in the Federal Register to enhance its procedures and...more
Foreign direct investment ("FDI") screening was one of the major topics of 2023 as a myriad of new regimes joined the FDI club and its more seasoned members continue to strengthen scope and enforcement, with the impacts felt...more
On 24 January 2024, the European Commission (EC) published its proposed reform of foreign investment screening in the EU. The proposal introduces more comprehensive rules for the review of foreign investments and strengthens...more
Following other countries which have tightened regulations on foreign investments in sectors sensitive to national security, Singapore has on 3 November 2023 announced the introduction of the Significant Investments Review...more
I. Einleitung - Der European Long-Term Investment Fund (ELTIF) ist ein europäisches Anlageinstrument, das aus wirtschaftspolitischen Erwägungen eingeführt wurde, um bestimmten Branchen und Unternehmen zusätzliche...more
In Short - The Development: On 1 June 2023, the Security Screening of Investment, Mergers and Acquisitions Act (Wet Veiligheidstoets investeringen, fusies en overnames) ("the FDI Act") entered into force, introducing a...more
In Short - The Development: The Spanish government adopted a new foreign direct investment ("FDI") implementing regulation ("Regulation") that clarifies key concepts of the existing law, such as investment, investors, and...more
The Emirates Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) recently issued eight decisions which, among other things, reform the regulatory regime for investment funds domiciled in the onshore United Arab Emirates (UAE) and...more
On October 20, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) released new, non-binding Enforcement and Penalty Guidelines (Guidelines). The Guidelines follow upon last month’s Executive Order linking CFIUS...more
The global transition from internal combustion engines (ICE) to battery electric vehicles (BEV) will be transformative and disruptive, if not existential, for many segments of the automotive industry. All direct and indirect...more
On May 1, 2021, the Foreign Direct Investments Screening Act (Act No. 34/2021 Coll. – the "FDI Act") is set to come into force, which will allow the government to screen potentially high-risk foreign transactions by investors...more
Pillsbury partner and Public Policy group leader Elizabeth Vella Moeller recently sat down with Matthew McGuire, former Executive Director of the World Bank under President Obama, to discuss the Biden administration’s...more
In the final days of December, Mexico issued new regulations that limit the ability of private companies to import and export fuel and hydrocarbons. Then, in the first week of this year, Mexico’s President, Mr. Lopez...more
PRC National Development and Reform Commission (the “NDRC”) and Ministry of Commerce (the “MOFCOM”) jointly published the Measures for the Security Review of Foreign Investment (the “Measures”) on 19 December 2020. The...more
The lowered threshold for foreign direct investments into France will apply to non-EU and non-EEA investors or to any investor fiscally domiciled outside the European Union and European Economic Area. On July 23, 2020,...more
On June 15, 2020, the Japanese government implemented new regulations that designate the manufacture of pharmaceuticals for infectious diseases and the manufacture of highly-controlled medical devices (medical devices that...more
The PRC Foreign Investment Law (“FIL”) and its Implementing Regulations (“Implementing Regulations”), took effect on January 1st, 2020. This means a single set of unified guiding documents has replaced the previous foreign...more
CFIUS has adopted a series of new amendments to its regulations that significantly expand its jurisdiction in the M&A process. In addition, President Trump has ordered another divestiture of a Chinese acquisition of a U.S....more
Teniendo en cuenta que anualmente se deben renovar certificaciones y otros procedimientos ante el Ministerio de Minas y Energías, se recuerda que el Gobierno de Colombia expidió el Decreto 2106 de 2019 por el cual se dictan...more
After a few years of debating and making into law, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) regulations implementing the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA) took effect on Feb. 13,...more
This program, co-sponsored by Seyfarth and Kroll, a division of Duff & Phelps, will bring into sharper focus the application of new regulations issued by Treasury on behalf of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United...more
The Situation: The French government issued on December 31, 2019, new rules substantially revising the French Foreign Direct Investments ("FDI") regulation. These new provisions mostly implement the recent PACTE law and the...more
On January 13, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, which chairs the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”), released the final regulations to implement the 2018 CFIUS reform law, the Foreign...more