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 |
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#CFIS22 Thank you for three rich days discussing the evolving law on investment control!
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.
The CFIS22 website is available here.
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.
Martin Wolfgang Zankl, Austria’s new Foreign Direct Investment Law: Review and Outlook
Latest CELIS news relating to the field of foreign investment screening and regulation.
CELIS Update on Investment Screening – May 2022
By Julian Schramm |
CELIS Briefing Note: Switzerland – Swiss Federal Council initiates consultation on legislation to screen foreign investment
By Janosch Wiesenthal |
New Research Funding to CELIS Institute by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation)
By J. Hillebrand Pohl |
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
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