Merger control, FDI and foreign subsidies filings: business as usual or complications ahead for M&A activity?

Are you an investor, startup, legal adviser or consultant or simply someone interested in M&A activity connected to Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania?

Are you worried about the ever-increasing number and complexity of the mandatory regulatory filings that need to be made before a transaction can be completed?

If you are not worried, is there a reason to be worried?

We invite you to a webinar, which opens with an in-house perspective on foreign investment and merger control filings in the Baltics. This should give participants a feel for just how relaxed or anxious companies which have had recent experience with FDI and merger filings in the Baltics are about the latest developments in the regulatory environment.

We then take a closer look at the foreign investment regimes in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and hopefully (further) decrease anxiety levels.

After the relatively new kid on the block (FDI filings), we will zoom in on how merger control is maturing in the Baltics, and whether it is causing any new headaches for transaction parties. As an advance warning, to give you time to take some painkillers, one new headache is the state fee for merger filings in Lithuania – it was increased to EUR 22,700 on 1 March 2023.

Finally, we will discuss if the Foreign Subsidies Regulation that, starting from 12 October 2023, will require certain transactions to be notified to the European Commission for prior approval is expected to have a major impact on M&A activity in the Baltics.

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