On 26 October, the German government partially prohibited the acquisition of a 35% interest in one of Hamburg port’s container terminals...
Freshfields Risk & Compliance
Frank Röhling
Partner in Antitrust, Competition and Trade, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Berlin, Germany
Only 20 months after the ink dried on Germany’s Competition Digitisation Act, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate...
On 1 January 2022, an amendment to the statutory definitions of critical infrastructure in Germany will enter into force. The...
Germany – together with Italy and France – has been at the forefront of the wider European trend to intensify the screening of the...
On 17 July 2020, an update to Germany’s foreign investment law entered into force. The key points are as follows:The changes mainly...
Today, a new regulation entered into force in Germany to increase foreign investment scrutiny in the health sector.The new rules are...
OverviewOn 25 March 2020, the EU Commission (the Commission) issued a guidance paper (PDF) in relation to foreign direct investment (FDI)...
Germany has come a long way since the landmark Midea/Kuka-transaction of 2017. The rules on foreign investments in Germany have been...