On 20 May 2024, the UK Government issued updated guidance on the use of powers under the National Security and Investment Act (“NSI Act”). As noted in our blog post dated 26 April 2024, this updated guidance forms part of the UK Government’s response to the call for evidence that it launched in December 2023 asking for stakeholder feedback on a number of areas of potential change to the NSI Act. The updates to the…
On 18 April 2024, the UK Government published its response to the call for evidence that it launched in December 2023 asking for stakeholder feedback on a number of areas of potential change to the UK’s National Security and Investment Act (“NSI Act”). The call for evidence, launched nearly two years after the UK’s first, standalone foreign investment review regime came into force (see here), sought views on a broad range of questions concerning both…