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Monday Mar 07, 2022
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Episode 3: Global Foreign Investment Podcast Series
In our third podcast Christoph Barth, partner at our Antitrust and Foreign Investment Group in Dusseldorf, welcomes Florentine Kessler-Grobe, Head of Unit for Foreign Investment Screening of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (“MoE”). Together they discuss recent trends, procedural questions and top tips for investors following a record year for German foreign investment control.
Topics covered include:
- Procedural questions and organisation of the MoE’s review process, including the engagement with the EU Screening mechanism
- The likelihood to end-up in an in-depth review and the reasons to open in-depths proceedings
- The interpretation of the newly introduced threshold of atypical control
- The most seen “customers” seen by the MoE in 2021 by industry sector and outlook for 2022
- Top tips from the MoE to navigate through foreign investment cases