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Investment Screening Between Discretion and Arbitrariness – Charting the Borderlands
Authors: Steffen Hindelang (CELIS Institute; Uppsala University), Helene Schramm (CELIS Institute) and Liam McGrath (CELIS Institute) Introduction Foreign investment screening regimes are built on discretion. Screening decisions often turn on assessments of open-ended lists of risks to ‘national security’ – an inherently ambiguous concept (J Benton Heath 2022, p. 295), which is constantly evolving as States adjust to new threats and vulnerabilities (OECD, 2022, p.…
Read More ...Disclosure and Confidentiality in Investment Screening
Author: Dorieke Overduin (Sovereign Arbitration Advisors) Introduction In order to assess risks posed by foreign direct investments to national security, authorities must understand not only the target business, but also the investor, its ownership structure, sources of financing, governance arrangements, and potential foreign state involvement. As a result, investment screening procedures impose extensive and often highly detailed…
Read More ...CELIS Announcement: CFIS 24 Save-the-date & More Exciting News
Dear CELIS Community, We would like to share with you some exciting news and updates around the CELIS Institute. The date and venue for CFIS 24 have been confirmed (I.), and in preparation for the conference we are looking for master and PhD students to join the orga team as Conference Sherpas (II.). We are…
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