Topic: Foreign direct investment

The US foreign investment review body must ensure that assets from Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank do not end up “in the hands of hostile” states, a top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee has said.

20 March 2023

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has reportedly told TikTok that it risks a total ban in the US if it does not spin-off from its Chinese owners, drawing a sharp rebuke from Beijing.

17 March 2023

TikTok is reportedly willing to split with its Chinese parent company ByteDance if a current proposal before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States fails to resolve national security concerns.

15 March 2023

The foreign investment control regime that the UK government established last year is “vague” and puts the country’s security at risk, an advisory organisation set up by former prime minister Tony Blair has claimed.

14 March 2023

The EU’s competition commissioner has said “there may be a hiccup or two” in the implementation of the bloc’s new foreign subsidies regulation, stating certain aspects of the new law place the agency in “unchartered territory”.

06 March 2023

Slovakia’s new foreign investment review regime has taken effect, requiring the country’s economics ministry to sign off on all investments from outside the EU into several “critical” domestic markets.

02 March 2023

The Australian government has blocked a Chinese national’s Singapore-based investment fund from increasing its stake in a domestic rare earths mining company on “national interest” grounds.

01 March 2023

The UK government has conditionally approved the acquisition of a domestic engineering company by a US private equity firm after it promised to continue supplying the Ministry of Defence.

28 February 2023

South Dakota’s Senate has rejected a bill that would have created the country's first state-level foreign investment review body with the power to scrutinise transactions based on national security concerns.

22 February 2023

The UK’s foreign investment review regime has presented an additional hurdle for companies that run into financial difficulties and must navigate distress situations, several local lawyers have said.

16 February 2023