Insights and top tips from the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action // Foreign Investment

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