Will the EU’s Focus on Foreign Subsidies Make It More Difficult To Acquire European Businesses?

Companies now face an additional regulatory hurdle when making acquisitions in the European Union. In addition to merger control and foreign direct investment (FDI) filings, they will be subject to the EU’s new Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR), Skadden partner Giorgio Motta explains. The law, which took effect in July, allows the European Commission to look into acquisitions of, and investments in, businesses in Europe by non-EU companies that have received some sort of financial support from a non-EU government.

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