CELIS Institute
Foreign Investment Screening | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Control
The CELIS Institute is an independent non-profit, non-partisan research enterprise dedicated to promoting better regulation of foreign investments in the context of security, public order, and competitiveness. It produces expert analysis and fosters a continuous trusting dialogue between policymakers, the investment community, and academics. The CELIS Institute is the leading forum for studying and debating investment screening policy.
The CELIS Institute was set up in 2020 by Professor Steffen Hindelang and Mr. J. Hillebrand Pohl as a permanent successor to the International Conference on a Common European Law on Investment Screening (CELIS), convened by Professor Hindelang and Dr. Andreas Moberg in 2019. A multi-stakeholder initiative, principally funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, CELIS resulted in the very first, interdisciplinary grounded, comprehensive appraisal of EU foreign investment control, published in the inaugural volume of the Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions in 2021 (Springer). The CELIS Institute is headquartered in Berlin.
The Institute also addresses the political and economic aspects of the legal field. Beyond screening, it covers questions relating to investment protection, security, strategy, regulation and facilitation, including dispute settlement.
Steffen Hindelang and J. Hillebrand Pohl | Directors
Screening
Protection
Facilitation
Security
Regulation
Strategy
Current Calls
CELIS Annual Call for Expression of Interest 2022: CELIS Country Reporters on Foreign Investment Regulation
By Janosch Wiesenthal |
Featured
The CELIS Forum on Investment Screening (CFIS) is Europe's first and foremost forum to discuss questions on investment screening and security, to be held in its 4th edition this year.
CFIS 22 brings together EU officials, national experts, diplomats, academics, business leaders, think tankers, and representatives of civil society and the media from across Europe and beyond.
Registration is open and latest information are available here.
Why should you attend CFIS 22?
- Engage in dialogue with key policy makers and leading experts from government, business, private legal practice, and academia.
- Hear about the latest thinking on investment screening and economic security relevant to overcome current challenges
- Best practices, expectations, challenges in investment screening process of EU Member States and EU Commission involvement
- Understanding security risks and methods or risk mitigation
- Thinking investment control 360 degrees - inter-linkage with sanctions, export control, and state aid
- Developments to follow in the a fast-changing geoeconomic landscape.
CELIS produces, hosts, and points to various original and third-party content relating to the fields of foreign investment and public order and secruity as well as investment protection and facilitation.
Robert Dygas and Artur Tomeczek, Foreign direct investment outflow from Asian countries: I...
Tania Voon and Dean Merriman, Is Australia’s Foreign Investment Screening Policy Con...
Canada – Canada Gazette, Vol. 156, No. 9, 750 et seq. (26 February 2022) (English &#...
Latest CELIS news relating to the field of foreign investment screening and regulation.
New Research Funding to CELIS Institute by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation)
By J. Hillebrand Pohl |
CELIS Update on Investment Screening – February 2022
By Janosch Wiesenthal |
New CELIS Patron and key sponsor: Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
By Janosch Wiesenthal |
Latest other news relating to the field of foreign investment screening and regulation.
CELIS hosts and organises alone and with partners various events on the fields of foreign investment and public order and secruity. Our flagship event is the CELIS annual conference.
CELIS International Conferences
2022 CELIS Forum on Investment Screening (CFIS)
The Emerging Law of Investment Control in Europe:
Screening, Sanctions and Subsidies
Registration open | 01-03 June 2022
By invitation and CELIS Fellows event | 02-03 and 06-07 Dec 2021
Video of the Book Launch: A Common European Law on Investment Screening (Springer 2021)
CELIS Partner Events
Investment Screening in the European Union