A New Foreign Investment Regime in the UK

A New Foreign Investment Regime in the UK

December 14, 2016, Covington Alert

Those who track investment policy issues will have noticed an important theme emerging in recent years of Western economies evaluating their foreign investment regimes, in particular in light of the outflow from China into technology, infrastructure and natural resource assets. The UK is now considering, and is expected to adopt, a new foreign investment regime that will give the Government greater powers of intervention.