X
22Aug

UK Life Sciences and Healthcare Newsletter - August 2020: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Control in the United Kingdom

Dechert LLP | | Return|
The UK has become one of the latest in a line of countries around the world to tighten FDI screening rules in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.... The legislative changes that were announced last month affect the rules in two respects. They immediately introduce the public health emergency as a new public interest consideration. They will also lower the intervention thresholds for transactions in certain sensitive technology sectors. Similarly to other jurisdictions, the measures aim to...
By: Dechert LLP
Source Url: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/uk-life-sciences-and-healthcare-10383/

Related

Managing Succession under COVID-19

Everyone, whether a corporate conglomerate, an international company, a national supermarket chain, ...

Read More >

COVID-19 and Australia's Foreign Investment Regime

The Situation: The Australian Government has temporarily reduced the monetary thresholds under the F...

Read More >

First Day on the Job and on Notice: When the Statute of Limitations Begins for Employer Background Checks

Employers began to rethink how they obtain authorization and retrieve background and credit checks f...

Read More >

Corporate E-Note - October 2019

In an article published in the September 2019 issue of DRI's For The Defense magazine, Ricardo Woods...

Read More >

California Law Requiring Female Board Members Challenged In Court

Earlier this week, three taxpayers sued California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to prevent enforc...

Read More >

Federal Court Explains Order Barring California From Enforcing New Anti-Employment-Arbitration Law

A federal court in Sacramento explained last week its rationale for temporarily barring the State of...

Read More >