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Introducing FIRE: Baker McKenzie’s Foreign Investment Review Evaluation

With global foreign investment scrutiny on the rise, not least in the current COVID-19 environment, obtaining concise, accessible advice has never been more important.

Enter Baker McKenzie’s bespoke Foreign Investment Review Evaluation (FIRE) tool. FIRE is a Baker McKenzie analysis platform that answers 51 detailed questions on foreign investment review regimes across 26 key jurisdictions. It is updated in real time and provides depth and legal certainty for companies.

FIRE is an automated database. Users can instantly filter the analysis by the countries and pertinent questions relevant to their deal, identifying areas for targeted follow-up, saving many hours and preventing the need to go to local counsel in every jurisdiction.

Capturing Baker McKenzie’s global field experience around enforcement practice, FIRE provides a comprehensive regulatory road map that you can promptly feed into your corporate strategy. For more information, please click here to access the FIRE tool.

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Samantha Mobley is a partner in the EU, Competition & Trade Practice of Baker & McKenzie’s London office and a member of the London office Management Committee. She headed Baker McKenzie’s Global Antitrust and Competition Group, a team of over 300 competition and antitrust specialists worldwide for six years. Samantha has significant experience of advising on the implications of foreign direct investment rules for cross-border transactions. She has advised a number of companies on the implication of the reduced UK national security thresholds, as well as coordinating the global foreign investment review aspects of a proposed $12 billion joint venture between a FTSE100 company and a Fortune 500 corporate. Samantha is a Who’s Who Legal 2020 Leading Individual for Foreign Investment Review.

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Rod Hunter, a partner in the Washington, DC office, regularly advises on U.S. foreign investment regulation, including reviews conducted by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and procedures relating to mitigation of foreign ownership, control or influence (FOCI) under national industrial security regulations. He previously served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and senior director for international economics at the National Security Council (NSC), the White House office that coordinates trade policy and supervises CFIUS. A recognized expert in the field, he has served as an expert witness on CFIUS in civil litigation and has testified before Congress during the legislative process leading to recent amendments to CFIUS’ authorizing legislation.

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