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The U.S. and the U.K. are focused on common national security risks, including preventing foreign access to key emerging technologies, the integrity of the defense supply chain, protection of critical infrastructure, and...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury requires U.S. issuers—including U.S.-domiciled investment funds1—to report foreign residents’ holdings of U.S. securities every five years on its Treasury International Capital (TIC) Form...more
The United States and an increasing number of other countries are evaluating the impact of foreign investment on their countries’ national security posture. Generally, foreign investment regulatory regimes allow regulators to...more
For foreign entities that need approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to pursue investments in the U.S., working with experienced legal counsel is essential. While CFIUS will approve...more
“It is critical that the application be made by the potential foreign owner, not a Finnish holding company already set up by the potential new owner” The Finnish government views foreign ownership positively as a...more
In November 2020, we released a client alert (available here) outlining significant amendments to the U.A.E.’s Companies Law that were yet to take effect at the time of writing. Most importantly, these amendments were to...more
In our previous client alert, we reported that certain key changes were introduced to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Commercial Companies Law No. 2 of 2015 (Companies Law). The text of the Federal-Decree Law No. 26 of 2020...more
New changes to UAE corporate and foreign ownership laws will abolish longstanding foreign ownership restrictions and remove substantial barriers to doing business in the UAE. ...more
Federal Decree-Law No. 26 of 2020 (the Decree) has been issued, introducing significant amendments to Federal Law No. 2 of 2015 on Commercial Companies (the CCL). - The Decree amends 51 articles of the CCL and introduces...more
Introduction - On 23 November 2020, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), issued a decree overhauling the rules relating to foreign ownership of companies in the UAE (the Decree) by...more
This briefing supplements our previous Dechert OnPoint briefings “Alert on New UAE FDI Law,” and “UAE FDI Law Positive List Confirmed” which discussed the introduction of the Foreign Direct Investment Law (Federal Decree-Law...more
Deals are generally not blocked in Finland, and are reviewed mostly when in the defense and dual-use sectors - The Finnish government views foreign ownership positively as a catalyst for increasing internationalization...more
Rules imposing new restrictions on the publication of online content in China came into effect on March 10, 2016. The new rules, the Online Publishing Service Administrative Rules, were jointly released by the State...more
This article originally was published in the Winter 2015 Edition of the Dechert Private Equity Newsletter but has been updated to reflect recent guidance from the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Affairs (BEA) on...more