Investment rules are fragmenting.
CELIS serves the field –
not a side.
CELIS provides small rooms and high trust for people who regulate cross-border investments and the people who do the deals.
We are the independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to economic security and investment screening.
Across continents, we connect regulators, investors, law firms, and academia in a high-trust environment that rarely exists elsewhere.
Together with our stakeholders, we develop best practices and standards that shape the balance between investment security, open markets, and competitiveness.
CELIS Events
CELIS Events
We build trust at scale. But in small rooms
The CELIS Institute hosts invite-only, curated, high-level convenings such as the CELIS Forum on Investment Screening (CFIS), regional CELIS Thought Leaders, and focused dialogues rooted in legal and policy excellence, such as CELIS Leaders and CELIS Salon.
CELIS Technical Advisory
CELIS Technical Advisory
We connect policy design to deal reality
The CELIS Institute has successfully delivered comparative research, tailored training for governments and practitioners, and technical advisory services on the design and implementation of screening frameworks and other foreign investment-related regulation.
CELIS Resources
CELIS Resources
We produce a public knowledge commons
The CELIS Blog hosts timely, expert debate — by experts, for experts.
Through our multi-jurisdiction Country Reports network — widely used by chambers of commerce, leading tech firms, and regulators in the EU, US, and beyond - we track investment regulation.
Our CELIS Non-Papers provide policy-ready insights on investment screening, supply-chain risks, foreign subsidies, energy security, and more.
CELIS Partners & Sponsors
Upcoming CELIS Events
CELIS Events are high-level, trust-engineered convenings that shape best practices in investment security. We believe multi-stakeholder, closed-door dialogue is vital to effective economic security policy.
Our flagship event – the CELIS Forum on Investment Screening (CFIS) – is an invite-only, strict Chatham House, small room forum (capped at 60 speakers and 60 attendees). It brings together EU officials, national experts, diplomats, private practitioners, in-house counsel, academics, business leaders, think tankers, and civil society for candid, outcome-oriented exchange.
Other events include regional CELIS Thought Leaders focused on a cluster of national regimes for practitioners who need to master how screening actually works, and discreet and focused dialogues rooted in legal and policy excellence, such as CELIS Leaders and CELIS Salon.
CELIS Event
CELIS Leaders Tokyo 2026
CELIS LEADERS Tokyo 26 17 – 18 November 2026 The inaugural CELIS Leaders Tokyo, held in November 2026, in Tokyo/Japan, will convene a high-level, dedicated dialogue forum focused on investment screening and economic security. The event, held under the Chatham…
CELIS German Chapter
BDI - CELIS Economic Security Conference. Investment Screening & Strategic Competitiveness
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Resources Highlight
Blog Articles
The First Belgian FDI Prohibition: Lessons from the NHV / GD Helicopter Finance Case
On 5 August 2026, NHV Group announced that its proposed acquisition by GD Helicopter Finance would not proceed, following a prohibition decision by Belgium's Interfederal Screening Committee. This was the first prohibition ever recorded under Belgium's foreign direct investment screening regime, operational since 1 July
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Avoiding Digital Infrastructure and Content Weaponisation through Investment Screening
Digital infrastructures have become strategic assets in the blurred space between peace and war. In recent conflicts, data flows and digital infrastructures have been targeted through sabotage and hacking operations designed to disrupt essential services, destabilise civilian life, and disseminate…
Blog Articles
The Meta–Manus Veto and the Rise of ‘National Security Unbound’: Tech-Sector Investment Screening and the Reshaping of International Investment Law
On 27 April 2026, the Office of China’s Foreign Investment Security Review Working Mechanism (housed within the National Development and Reform Commission, NDRC) issued a public notice prohibiting the proposed foreign investment in Manus – the agentic AI start-up that…