Remedies under the UK foreign investment regime are tailored to the transaction and will not involve a “cut and paste” from other decisions, the head of the country’s Investment Screening Unit has said.
A Saudi Aramco venture capital firm has sold its stake in Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence chip startup Rain AI following a foreign investment review.
An attempt by the Barclay family to buy back the Telegraph newspaper by giving majority control to a United Arab Emirates-backed consortium raises “a very real potential national security threat”, a group …
The German government breached due process rules when blocking the sale of a domestic ventilator manufacturer to a Chinese buyer, a court has ruled.
The Italian government has prohibited Safran’s proposed $1.8 billion purchase of a Raytheon subsidiary because of concerns about maintaining domestic production lines for defence products.
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A report on the UK’s foreign investment regime shows the country’s government discriminates against China-linked buyers, a spokesperson for the Chinese administration has claimed.
Hungary’s decision to block an EU company from acquiring a strategically important domestic raw materials supplier under its foreign investment rules was a “particularly serious restriction” of EU law as it only sought to protect the national economy, the bloc’s top court has said.
A new mandatory foreign investment screening regime comprising representatives from the Belgian federal and state governments will begin assessing the effect of transactions on security, public order and the country’s strategic interests.
The Italian government has imposed a suite of conditions on the Chinese shareholder of Pirelli to remedy national security concerns, including prohibitions on appointing senior board members and protecting key technology.
In recent years, the European Commission has pushed for a harmonised approach to FDI screening, aiming to develop …
Until early 2022 there was no dedicated regime for reviewing acquisitions by foreign purchasers in the United Kingdom …
Recent legislative acts have led to substantial changes to the German FDI Regime by tightening the regime and …
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