Linklaters Global Foreign Investment Podcast Series
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Linklaters Global Foreign Investment Podcast Series
In recent years there has been a paradigm shift in the importance and frequency of foreign investment reviews as part of the M&A process. An increasing number of jurisdictions have introduced, or strengthened, rules restricting foreign investment. How can organisations ensure that they avoid costly, and sometimes investment or deal halting, incidents with multiple regulators and their ever-growing reach?
Throughout this new podcast series, Linklaters lawyers from across our global offices and affiliate firms will be joined by speakers from global FI regulators to bring a different viewpoint on the practical issues, quirks and thoughts on the review process of the respective regimes.
Discover our episodes
Insights and top tips from the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action
In our third podcast Christoph Barth, partner in our Antitrust and Foreign Investment Group in Dusseldorf, welcomes Florentine Kessler-Grobe, Head of Unit for Foreign Investment Screening of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (“MoE”). Together they discuss recent trends, procedural questions and top tips for investors following a record year for German foreign investment control.
Topics covered include:
Procedural questions and organisation of the MoE’s review process, including the engagement with the EU Screening mechanism
The likelihood to end-up in an in-depth review and the reasons to open in-depths proceedings
The interpretation of the newly introduced threshold of atypical control
The most seen “customers” seen by the MoE in 2021 by industry sector and outlook for 2022
Top tips from the MoE to navigate through foreign investment cases
The second podcast in the series comes alongside our Outlook for 2022. 2021 was a record year for FDI developments, with expectations that the current proliferation foreign investment regimes will continue to take centre-stage over the course of 2022. This podcast takes a look at why it is crucial for parties to prepare thoroughly, including by having a detailed understanding of a target’s activities, and consider deal conditionality very carefully whilst watching out for the impact of politics on deals, particularly in hotly contested regional disputes.
Topics covered include:
Global Foreign Investment: reforms and new regimes
Our first podcast features Nicole Kar, Global Head of Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group, alongside Chris Blairs, Deputy Director, and Andy Ormerod-Cloke, Head of Policy at the new Investment Security Unit (ISU), BEIS. Together they discuss the operational aspects of the ISU and filings from 4 January once the NSIA takes effect. Topics covered include:
a deep-dive into the Investment Security Unit – the operational unit within BEIS that will be the front office in handling notifications and call ins under the NSI Act
the practicalities of filing and how the system will operate to ensure advisors and investors are ready to go from day 1
remedies and mitigation for ‘problem’ deals
nuances for e.g. funds that would affect their filings
Key Contacts
We are able to offer foreign investment advice, either directly through our own offices, or through local counsel in the following key and non-key jurisdictions. Please speak to your local Linklaters contact for further information.
