When planning transactions, businesses increasingly need to consider the application of foreign direct investment (FDI) regimes, and address these within deal risk profiles and timetables.
ICLG – Foreign Direct Investment Regimes 2025
Samuel Beighton and Bernardine Adkins are the contributing editors of ICLG – Foreign Direct Investment Regimes 2025, the latest instalment in this series.
The updated guide for 2025 covers FDI regimes across 30 key jurisdictions worldwide, sharing the expertise of leading practitioners from around the globe.
Each country-specific chapter offers valuable insights into the legal issues underpinning the relevant regime, as well as the practical and procedural points that enable timely clearances to be secured.
Gowling WLG has contributed two chapters, providing pragmatic overviews of the FDI regimes in:
- China, contributed by Vivian Desmonts; and
- the UK, contributed by Samuel Beighton, Bernardine Adkins and James Stunt.[1]
If you have any questions about how FDI regimes may affect planned transactions, please do contact our authors.
[1] The chapters were first published in ICLG – Foreign Direct Investment Regimes 2025 by Global Legal Group.
About the author(s)
With a background in competition law economics, Samuel advises upon a broad range of UK and EU competition law instructions, including merger control, dawn raids and investigations, anti-competitive arrangements and abuses of dominance, distribution and e-commerce, market investigations, and the intersection of competition law and IP rights.
Bernardine is utterly client-focused and brings technical cutting edge advice to every matter on which she works, with a proven ability to keep sight of the 'bigger picture'.
Vivian Desmonts
Vivian Desmonts is a European lawyer and a registered foreign lawyer in China with over 20 years' experience in Shanghai and Guangzhou. His multicultural background helps to build relationships between Chinese and international companies looking to do business together. He is co-managing partner of the Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing offices of Gowling WLG.
James Stunt is a senior associate in the EU, Trade and Competition team, based in London. He regularly acts for clients in relation to a wide range of competition law issues, including cartel investigations, competition litigation and merger control. He also advises clients upon key facets of State aid and subsidy control issues. James is a member of the firm's UK dawn raid response team.
