On 1 July 2023, the Belgium foreign direct investment ("FDI") screening regime enters into force. The regime will add scrutiny for non-EU companies planning investments in targeted sectors and will create additional...more
The increasing number and complexity of foreign direct investment (FDI) screening regimes requires careful navigation when planning and executing global M&A transactions, as well as greenfield cross-border investments. In...more
On Monday, 4 April 2022, the German Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck announced that his Ministry (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz – BMWK) is appointing the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur...more
All good things are worth waiting for? Not in the case of the planned takeover of Munich-based chip supplier Siltronic by its Taiwanese rival GlobalWafers. After more than a year of intense FDI screening, the Federal Ministry...more
On 1 January 2022, Germany renewed its ever tougher FDI rules yet again. The reform expands definitions of so-called critical infrastructures, especially but not only in the areas of IT services and energy. Indirectly, this...more
In its First Annual Report on the EU Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Screening Regulation and Member States’ individual screening mechanisms, the European Commission takes stock of the first year of implementation of the new...more
Regulators are becoming increasingly active in imposing measures on deals or prohibiting them altogether under FDI rules – with prohibitions happening in the EU’s largest economies Germany, France, and Italy in the past...more
Foreign investment control has become a key factor in M&A deals and 2020 was a particularly eventful year. A large number of countries have recently introduced foreign investment control regimes (or tightened their existing...more
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The long-awaited application of the European Union (EU) Regulation on a framework for the screening of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the EU started yesterday, 11 October 2020. It is still early days to anticipate how the...more
Foreign direct investment (“FDI”) screenings have become a relevant factor for global transactions in recent years. More and more jurisdictions are introducing or ramping up their powers for scrutinising FDI, which parties to...more