5 Results from 2022
Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com
Following up on my 2nd quarter foreign direct investment review, we’ll pick it up in Ireland which set out a new FDI screening rule similar to that of the UK. The Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022 should be enacted before end of year and will require notification of transactions in issuers with activities affecting security or publ...
24 October 2022 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
Being that the UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 tournament is underway and Wimbledon has come to a close, I’ll devote this foreign direct investment roundup to the region. Plus, there have been quite a few announcements during Q2 so let’s get started. In Belgium, the government there has drafted legislation to establish a framework to screen foreign direct ...
12 July 2022 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
We finally got the Australian Government’s response to its Treasury’s evaluation of the 2021 foreign investment reforms and on 1 April the first part of these reforms went into force. This first part focuses on clarification and streamlining the processes of less sensitive types of investments; most notably: tightening the definition of ‘Australia...
04 May 2022 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
It is widely known that Norway has one of the tightest substantial shareholding disclosure windows among countries. While many countries allow for reporting of substantial shareholding within days of a threshold breach, Norway’s requirement is immediately. What does immediately mean? According to Rulefinder, the online regulatory intelligence solut...
16 February 2022 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
Changes and extensions to foreign direct investment rules in the fourth quarter of 2021 continued to be fueled by Covid-19 as the Omicron variant made its debut in November. A few countries, France, Italy, and Spain have extended their existing FDI restrictions that were put in place in 2020 as temporary measures through to 31 December 2022. France...
27 January 2022 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
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