IPSC Professional Development & CPD · Module 04
Foreign Investment Screening
Assess how capital screening, strategic sector sensitivities, and national security review shape deals, market access, and advisory work.
This 3.5-hour professional development module examines how foreign investment review regimes affect transactions, investor strategy, regulatory timing, mitigation outcomes, and institutional risk across increasingly sensitive commercial and policy environments.
Module overview
A practical module for professionals who need to understand how foreign investment screening is reshaping deal execution, national security review, and access to strategic sectors.
3.5-hour live CPD intensive
Designed for lawyers, transaction advisers, policy professionals, risk teams, executives, and institutions working across cross-border investment and strategic sectors.
National security and deal risk
The module focuses on how screening regimes affect acquisitions, minority investments, influence rights, sensitive assets, and cross-border capital deployment.
Transactions, timing, and advice
Participants examine how screening questions shape notifications, deal structuring, timing assumptions, contractual protections, and regulatory strategy.
Sharper screening judgement
Participants leave with a clearer framework for identifying review triggers, sensitive sectors, mitigation risk, and strategic implications for investors and targets.
Learning outcomes
Participants build a practical method for assessing foreign investment screening issues across deals, sectors, and jurisdictions.
Understand screening logic
Understand why governments screen foreign investment, how national security review works, and why strategic sectors attract increasing scrutiny.
Identify review triggers
Recognise how control thresholds, minority rights, board access, ownership structures, state links, and target sector exposure can trigger review.
Assess deal consequences
Evaluate how notification requirements, review timelines, mitigation conditions, and potential prohibitions affect transaction certainty and market access.
Advise strategically
Translate complex screening issues into clear advice for investors, targets, boards, legal teams, and policy stakeholders involved in cross-border transactions.
Session structure
The module moves from screening rationale to applied transaction analysis, showing how review mechanisms shape real deal environments.
Screening landscape
Overview of foreign investment screening growth, national security rationales, and the widening scope of sensitive sectors and review powers.
Triggers and notification
How to assess whether a deal may require notification, attract scrutiny, or raise issues linked to ownership, sector, control, data, infrastructure, or strategic technology.
Review, mitigation, outcomes
Examine review timing, questions from regulators, conditions, remedies, unwinding risk, and the practical effect on transaction planning and execution.
Advisory application
Applied exercise in screening a cross-border investment scenario and drafting a concise note for deal teams, boards, investors, or policy clients.
Registration
Register interest in Foreign Investment Screening.
This module can contribute to CPD requirements for many professional bodies, subject to each organisation’s rules, and is designed for direct use in advisory and transactional practice.