Clifford Chance

Change to rules for private foreign investment in government-owned critical infrastructure assets

11 April 2016

As envisaged by the Australian Treasurer last month, the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Regulation  2015 (Cth) (Regulations) have been amended to ensure that private foreign investors bidding for government-owned infrastructure projects will be subject to the same level of foreign investment scrutiny as their government-owned counterparts.

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