Three years into the applicability of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (“FSR”), businesses now have a clearer basis for navigating the regime, but not all questions are answered. This alert shares key practical lessons from our experience with FSR since summer 2023: where execution risk arises, what the filing record tells us, how FSR interacts with foreign direct investment (“FDI”) screening and merger control, and what businesses can do now to make future reviews faster and…
On 8 June 2026, the new EU Foreign Direct Investment Screening Regulation[1] was formally adopted by the Council, following the European Parliament’s approval on 19 May 2026. The Regulation was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 26 June 2026. It will enter into force 20 days from that date and will apply from 17 January 2028. The revision is part of the EU’s economic security strategy[2] and represents the most significant…