Welcome to the latest edition of our Healthcare & Life Sciences Market Update, in which we explore the evolving landscape of investment trends, regulatory challenges, and strategic opportunities shaping the global market....more
The Court’s first decision on FDI screening limits the scope of the EU FDI Screening Regulation and underlines that national regulators must meet a high legal standard to block foreign investments.
On July 13, 2023, the...more
The energy and infrastructure sectors continue to experience transformative changes at a high pace, a trend that Latham expects to sustain momentum for the foreseeable future.
Energy Sector -
The global mega-trend of...more
1/22/2021
/ Acquisitions ,
Coal ,
Digital Markets Strategy ,
Energy Sector ,
EU ,
Foreign Direct Investment ,
Hydrogen Power ,
Member State ,
Mergers ,
Power Infrastructure ,
Private Equity Funds
The Digitalization Act, which entered into force on January 19, 2021, substantially extends the scope of German antitrust law to tackle presumed enforcement challenges in the digital economy and raises merger control...more
1/21/2021
/ Antitrust Provisions ,
Blacklist ,
Competition Act ,
Digital Assets ,
Digital Markets Strategy ,
Federal Cartel Office (the FCO) ,
Germany ,
Illegal Tipping ,
Judicial Review ,
Merger Controls ,
Mergers ,
New Regulations
In June 2018, the UK adopted new powers to review certain technology related deals on national security grounds, extending the scope and breadth of its control regime to those that concern computing hardware, or quantum...more
1/11/2019
/ Acquisitions ,
CFIUS ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Emerging Technology Companies ,
EU ,
FIRRMA ,
Foreign Investment ,
Germany ,
Merger Controls ,
Mergers ,
National Security ,
Technology Sector ,
UK ,
UK Brexit ,
UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
Final joint guidance on new transaction value threshold published.
The German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) and the Austrian Federal Competition Authority (FCA) have released a joint guidance paper (Guidance Paper)...more
The expansion of the UK government’s foreign investment review powers will require additional scrutiny of potential deals for the early identification of additional steps in the regulatory approval strategy.
Key...more
Growing economic nationalism is threatening to impact M&A across Europe, as governments and regulators take an increasing interest in “foreign” acquisitions of nationally important companies. Deal teams have previously...more
Growing economic nationalism is threatening to impact M&A across Europe, as governments and regulators take an increasing interest in “foreign” acquisitions of nationally important companies in the name of national security....more