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Foreign Correspondent Podcast | The America First Investment Policy and What it Means for Investors
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Podcast - The "I" in FOCI and AI: Innovation, Intelligence, Influence
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AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 27: U.S. Healthcare Reimbursement Guidance for Foreign Life Sciences Companies
2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: Cross-border Investment Review and New Restrictions
2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: Public Policy
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 25: Venture Capital Trends and Fundraising Strategies for Foreign Startups Expanding to the U.S.
Foreign Correspondent: An FDI Podcast | Mapping the National Security Landscape for Investors
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 23: Shaping Georgia’s Energy Landscape: Insights From Commissioner Tim Echols
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 22: What Global Companies Need to Know About Navigating FDA Regulations and U.S. Market Entry
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 217: Japanese Investment in North Carolina’s Life Sciences Industry with David Robinson of Maynard Nexsen
Private M&A 2024: Key Trends and Forecasts
Everyone Come to Play: Exploring FOCI Mitigation Instruments
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 19: The Rise of Korean Investment in the Southeast U.S.
Episode 337 -- Nicolas Garcia, GC at Orica, on Compliance Trends and Challenges in Latin America
A Recap: Expectations for 2025 Versus Reality to Date - 2025 began with optimism that mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity would continue to increase this year. In Australia and globally, 2024 saw the value of M&A activity...more
COMPETITION - Commission clears acquisition of Novolex and Pactiv by Apollo and CPP Investments (M.11849) - Midday Express...more
The pro-business agenda of the new US administration looked set to boost outbound M&A into Europe in 2025, but tariff announcements and geopolitical tumult mean that dealmakers are holding fire for now - Following a year...more
COMPETITION - Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11888 - HIG Capital / Heller)... Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.11862 - PSS / Maccaferri / JV)...more
German dealmaking posted steady growth in 2024 against a backdrop of political and economic upheaval - Deals targeting German assets remained resilient in 2024 despite the challenging political and economic climate in the...more
President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) on Feb. 3, 2025, directing the Treasury and Commerce secretaries to submit a comprehensive plan within 90 days for the creation of the United States' first Sovereign...more
COMPETITION - Appeal brought on 3 December 2024 by European Commission against the judgment of the General Court of 18 September 2024 in Case T-334/19, Google and Alphabet Vs. Commission (Case C-826/24 P) Re: dismissal of...more
COMPETITION - Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11575 - Repsol / Bunge / Bisa) Commission clears acquisition of Connexa by CDPQ and OTTP (M.11836) - Midday Express...more
COMPETITION - Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11797 - Atlas / Rehau Automotive)...more
COMPETITION - Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11861 - Towerbrook / JC Flowers / Railsr / Equals) - Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11802 - TTE / AES / ADRE)...more
As global economic and geopolitical environments enter a new era, companies need to continuously develop and adjust their coherent global business strategies to secure and further expand business opportunities in all markets...more
Welcome to the latest edition of M&A Insights, where we bring together partners from across the A&O Shearman network to explore the themes shaping global dealmaking. The election of Donald Trump as President is expected to...more
In our biannual M&A trends report we explore the possible impact of the new U.S. administration on dealmaking, the dynamics of transatlantic M&A, private equity exits, and Mario Draghi’s proposals to reshape the European...more
In this two-part episode, Mike Burke, AGG Corporate partner and co-leader of the firm’s international initiative, is joined by Gadens partner John Kettle to discuss trans-pacific business expansion and doing business in...more
One effect of the COVID-19 pandemic has been to accelerate the implementation of new or stricter controls on inward-bound foreign direct investment activity ("FDI"), particularly in the European Union. For example, in March...more
In this episode, Akin Gump international competition and trade partner Davina Garrod and corporate partner Gavin Weir discuss M&A in the U.K., EU, U.S., China and more, its state of health and where it might go in 2020....more
With the ongoing US-China trade tension, what has been easily overlooked is China’s recent liberalization of its legal regime in the areas of foreign investment and foreign investors’ M&A activities in China. This...more
The US Bureau of Economic Analysis recently published its 2018 statistics on the value of new foreign direct investment (NFDI) in the US. New foreign direct investment refers to the amount invested by foreign companies in the...more
The past two weeks have seen two major developments in relation to the screening of foreign direct investment in the European Union (“EU”) for national security or public order reasons. First, on December 10, 2018, the EU...more
In what has become his trademark Trumpian manner, the President announced last Friday that new tariffs and trade restrictions against China are on again, at the same moment that his senior Commerce and Treasury Department...more