How Have Geopolitical Changes Affected Corporate Law?

Our Partner Klaus Ilmonen has published new research on the geopolitics of corporate law in his role as a professor of practice in commercial law at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki. His research examines how geopolitical changes affect corporate regulation and how the role of corporations in society is evolving.

Corporate law is changing: the focus is shifting from managing agency relationships and corporate performance to serving as a tool to promote strategic state interests in a fractured world order. Geopolitical developments have driven an increase in security-related policies that directly affect corporations and private business in the EU and elsewhere. The EU is, for example, introducing new FDI regulation and proposing new export controls. The EU has also set new requirements for critical entities to strengthen continuity planning and resilience to external disturbances in the CER Directive. Similar developments have occurred in other regions as