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Foreign direct investment (FDI) controls and national security screening processes are increasingly a ‘deal-critical’ consideration on complex cross-border M&A and financing transactions.

Our global foreign investment expertise will help you navigate the fast-moving international foreign investment landscape to plan and execute your deals with confidence. 

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Increasingly complex regulatory environment

New FDI screening tools have proliferated in recent years while previously well-established regimes have expanded significantly in scope. Each regime has jurisdiction-specific characteristics. Sometimes even domestic deals can be caught. Enforcement is becoming more assertive as agencies react to recent geo-political and economic shocks such as Covid-19, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and consequent inflationary pressures throughout the global supply chain.

Inter-agency cooperation Added to this, agencies are now routinely coordinating FDI reviews with counterparts in ‘friendly’ third party countries