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On July 20, 2021, the UK government announced that the National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSI Act) will come fully into force on January 4, 2022. From that date, certain investments or acquisitions of ...

More than five years ago, the EU's Foreign Direct Investment ("FDI") Screening Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2019/452) (the "Regulation")...

There are close economic ties between the UK and Germany – around 2500 German companies have a UK branch, employing 370,000 people.

History has often illustrated the power of the maxim, coined by the French socialist thinker, Auguste Comte, that "Demography is destiny".

An offshore bond is effectively a collection of investments held under the wrapper of a non-qualifying insurance policy, which is governed by its own tax rules. They can be highly efficient tax and investment planning wrappers.

After almost three years from initial reforms to the UK Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) regime, the National Security and Investment Act 2021 (Act) received Royal Assent on 29 April.

The UK government has now made a show of force in its foreign direct investment (FDI) reviews.

September, statistically, has tended to produce the worst monthly returns for global equities, and we had advised investors to use the expected period of weakness to raise their equity weightings in anticipation of a strong final quarter.

Since entering into force just over two years ago, the UK National Security and Investment (NSI) regime has resulted in a marked step-change in screening of transactions on national security grounds in the UK...

UNCITRAL and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes released, in September 2021, their third iteration of a Draft Code of Conduct for Adjudicators in International Investment Disputes.

Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) are treaties between two countries which protect investments made by nationals (including companies) from one country in another country.

In contrast to the remarkable levels of deal activity seen in 2021, 2022 was a more challenging year for private equity investors. Faced with the headwinds of increased inflation, Russia's...

On February 14, 2019, the European Parliament (EP) plenary session agreed to adopt an EU mechanism for screening foreign direct investments (FDI) in order to protect strategic sectors

Regulatory regimes continue to proliferate, with the EU's new foreign subsidy rules introducing a potential third regulatory hurdle...

The UK Government recently published its "Vision 2035: Critical Minerals Strategy" (the Strategy), setting out a 10-year framework to secure access to the critical minerals...

With the new requirements for transparency of ownership of UK companies just being implemented, the UK Government is considering extending the requirements to certain foreign companies.

Although outbound FDI from the US is forecast to fall in 2017, US-based multinationals still see investment outside the US market as central to their corporate growth plans – according to new research...