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The UK's National Security and Investment Bill: key points and implications

12 November 2020

The UK Government has published its National Security and Investment Bill. The draft legislation will create a new, standalone screening regime, allowing the Government to review acquisitions of certain interests in legal entities, assets and intellectual property and to prohibit such transactions, or impose remedies on them, if it identifies national security concerns.

Mandatory filing obligations will apply to qualifying transactions in 17 sensitive sectors, with all other transactions subject to a voluntary filing regime and possibilities for the Government to review unnotified transactions up to five years after they have closed. Once the legislation has passed, the Government will also be able to retrospectively review any transactions that closed on or after 12 November 2020.

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