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Irish FDI Screening Regime - What You Need To Know

2 months ago | mondaq.com | Kate McKenna |Calum Warren |Simon Shinkwin

M Matheson More Established in 1825 in Dublin, Ireland and with offices in Cork, London, New York, Palo Alto and San Francisco, more than 700 people work across Matheson’s six offices, including 96 partners and tax principals and over 470 legal and tax professionals. Matheson services the legal needs of internationally focused companies and financial institutions doing business in and from Ireland.
Implementation Of The Windsor Framework

Nov 28, 2024 | mondaq.com | Kate McKenna |Kate Lenihan

The Windsor Framework ("WF") as implemented by Regulation (EU) 2023/1182 removes the option for jointly labelled medicines to be marked as NI/GB/UK. The Framework will be directly applicable for medicines for human use from 1st January 2025 and UK medicines will be required to be labelled as "UK only".
The Windsor Framework: Labelling Of Medicines In A Post-Brexit World

Nov 7, 2024 | mondaq.com | Kate McKenna |Kate Lenihan

The Windsor Framework ("WF") as implemented by Regulation (EU) 2023/1182 removes the option for jointly labelled medicines to be marked as NI/GB/UK. The Framework will be directly applicable for medicines for human use from 1st January 2025 and UK medicines will be required to be labelled as "UK only".
The European Media Freedom Act: The End Of Technical Irish Media Merger Filings?

Sep 18, 2024 | mondaq.com | Kate McKenna

EU Regulation 2024/1083, the European Media Freedom Act ("EMFA") was enacted in May 2024 and is to be incorporated into Irish primary legislation. This should happen before 8 August 2025, when most of EMFA becomes effective as a matter of EU law. This article focuses on the positive potential of EMFA to make doing business in Ireland easier, by putting an end to technical Irish media merger filings for 'foreign-to-foreign media mergers' and 'non-media JVs'.
The Future Is Irish? Illumina/Grail & Irish Merger Control Powers

Sep 4, 2024 | mondaq.com | Kate McKenna

An important ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on 3 September 2024, in two cases brought by Illumina and Grail against the European Commission (EC), has essentially held that a company's right to legal certainty places a limit on the EC's most flexible merger control powers. The relevant powers, under Art.
New Irish FDI Screening Regime: Key Points

Mar 12, 2024 | mondaq.com | Niall Collins |Calum Warren |Kate McKenna |Simon Shinkwin

The Screening of Third Country Transactions Act 2023 (the "Act") will establish a new FDI screening regime in Ireland. The Act was signed into law by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (the "Minister") on 31 October 2023 and the current expectation is that it will come into force in Q2 2024.
New EU FDI Screening Regulation

Mar 11, 2024 | mondaq.com | Niall Collins |Calum Warren |Kate McKenna |Simon Shinkwin

On 24 January 2024, the European Commission ("Commission") published five new initiatives to "strengthen the EU's economic security at a time of growing geopolitical tensions and profound technological shifts".
'Dawn Raids' - Development In The Treatment Of Legally Privileged Documents - Arbitration & Dispute Resolution - Ireland

Mar 7, 2024 | mondaq.com | Karen Reynolds |Connor Cassidy |Niall Collins |Kate McKenna

On 2 February 2024, the High Court delivered judgment in Commission for Communications Regulation v Eircom Limited, which is of significance in relation to the treatment of legally privileged documents seized in the context of regulatory investigations and 'authorised officer visits' (sometimes referred to as 'dawn raids').
New Irish FDI Screening Regime: Key Points

Mar 4, 2024 | lexology.com | Niall Collins |Kate McKenna |Calum Warren |Simon Shinkwin

New Irish FDI Screening Regime: Key PointsThe Screening of Third Country Transactions Act 2023 (the "Act") will establish a new FDI screening regime in Ireland. The Act was signed into law by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (the "Minister") on 31 October 2023 and the current expectation is that it will come into force in Q2 2024.
FDI Update: New EU FDI Screening Regulation and Economic Security Proposals

Feb 29, 2024 | lexology.com | Niall Collins |Calum Warren |Kate McKenna |Simon Shinkwin

On 24 January 2024, the European Commission ("Commission") published five new initiatives to "strengthen the EU's economic security at a time of growing geopolitical tensions and profound technological shifts".