A few months after introducing new laws on Foreign Investment Restrictions (FIR) as part of the government’s Anti-Crisis Shield 4.0 programme, the Polish authority (the President of UOKiK) has issued its first decision acknowledging an acquisition that fell within the FIR. The key transaction parameters that triggered the consent requirement in this case were as follows: The investor, a private equity fund, came from a non-OECD country (the Cayman Islands);The target, the Center for Electronic Settlements…