Concurrences Publishes Akin Gump Article on EU National Security Laws
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Concurrences has published the article “Foreign Investment: An overview of EU and national case law,” written by Akin Gump international trade partner Davina Garrod and associates Sebastian Casselbrant-Multala and Lennart Garritsen.
The article examines foreign investment regulation and practice at the EU-level as well as in the UK, Germany and other member states of the European Union, and compares it to that of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which, the authors write, is seen as “the most established and restrictive National Security regime in the world.”
EU countries, the article says, have been playing “catch-up” with CFIUS “and have recently agreed a framework approach to the screening of foreign direct investments (FDI) at a European level in order to protect security and public order.” In addition, according to the article, several EU member states are upgrading their existing tools or introducing completely new mechanisms to regulate FDI.
To read more about FDI regulations across the EU, please click here to read the article in its entirety.
