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CELIS German Chapter Round Table in Berlin – 27th May 2025
CELIS German Chapter, BLOMSTEIN and Dentons jointly organize an economic policy Round Table on 27th May (17:00-19:00) in Berlin to discuss the impact of trade policy measures on investment decisions. In particular, the debate will focus on how new and complex trade policy measures on both sides of the Atlantic and their embedding in questions of economic security affect investment ...
Continue reading Behind the Scenes of the First Czech FDI Screening Prohibition
Jan Kupčík The Scenes The Czech FDI screening regime has been in effect since May 2021. Until recently, it had been flying pretty much under the radar due to a number of factors, in particular because of its quite narrow scope in terms of mandatory filings. We had dozens of cases, the majority of which were triggered by a ...
Continue reading Conference Report: BDI/CELIS German Chapter – Investment Screening Conference
Kilian Wagner From 27th to 28th March, the BDI and CELIS German Chapter organized the second joint conference on investment screening in Berlin. The conference took place against the backdrop of a rapidly changing geopolitical environment since the beginning of Donald Trump's second presidency. Only a few days earlier, the US administration had unexpectedly announced the imposition of tariffs on ...
Continue reading Geopolitical Challenges Beyond the European Union: The Evolution of FDI Screening Mechanisms and the Quest for European Security
Federica Marconi* In recent years, the European Union (EU) has been confronted with a series of unprecedented global crises, including the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war. These events have had a profound impact on the geopolitical and geo-economic landscapes. Concurrently, the rapid advancement of technology has increased global interconnectedness, thereby blurring the lines between the economic importance and security ...
Continue reading ReArm Europe – the Big Bang?
Mats Cuvelier - Associate at White & Case Introduction In the wake of the United States suspending military aid to Ukraine after an infamous meeting at the White House, EU leaders convened at an emergency summit and agreed that "Europe must become more sovereign, more responsible for its own defence and better equipped to act and deal autonomously". To put ...
Continue reading Russian Investments and Corporate Relocation: Economic Strategy or Threat to Democracies
By Davit Maisuradze and Zurab Gvelesiani, Structural Reforms Center (SRC) All Eyes on Ukraine and Quiet Capture of Georgia While the global community is fixated on Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine, a parallel but less visible development has been unfolding in the region. Russia has quietly seized control over Georgia, effectively stalling its Europeanization process and severely damaging its ...
Continue reading Trump Administration Signals Material Updates to CFIUS and Outbound Investment Regulations
By Adam M. Smith, Stephenie Gosnell Handler, David Wolber, Michelle Weinbaum, Dharak Bhavsar, and Chris Mullen. On February 21, 2025, the White House issued a National Security Presidential Memorandum titled the “America First Investment Policy” (the “America First Investment memo”) and accompanying fact sheet (Fact Sheet) proposing material changes to the U.S. foreign direct investment and outbound investment regulatory ...
Continue reading The First Annual Report on Dual-Use Export Controls
By Kwinten Dewaele, Research Affiliate at KU Leuven (Institute for Contract Law) Introduction Article 26 of Regulation (EU) 2021/821 ("the Regulation") obliges the European Commission to publish an annual report on the implementation of the Regulation and the activities of the Dual-Use Coordination Group (DUCG). Similar obligations related to FDI screening exist (see Article 5 Regulation (EU) 2019/452). While ...
Continue reading Transatlantic Insecurity: Revaluation of Economic Security Policy’s Business Impacts Amid US-European Turbulence
By John Kay* The recent foreign policy shifts in Washington have triggered a radical reassessment of the U.S.-European relationship, creating an evolving landscape that the transatlantic business community must closely monitor. U.S. investments in the EU are valued at approximately $3.95 trillion, and the two economies have the world’s largest trade and investment relationship. Yet, the starkly different approaches ...
Continue reading The Application of Italian FDI Law to the Creation of Pledges: Monitoring the Reasonable Management of the Company.
by Andrea Gemmi, Associate, BonelliErede; PhD Candidate, University of Padova and Luca Perfetti, Partner, BonelliErede; Full Professor, Pegaso University The article illustrates how the use of vague and indeterminate clauses in the Italian FDI screening law grounds an expansive and unpredictable practice by the FDI authority. In particular, the article addresses the example of the recent case-law concerning the ...
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