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On 31 October 2023, the Screening of Third Country Transactions Act 2023 (the “Act”), which establishes a new foreign direct investment ("FDI") screening regime in Ireland, was enacted.
United States | Publication | February 2023
While bid rigging and other offenses relating to procurement fraud are nothing new in the history of the Antitrust Division's criminal enforcement efforts, the Division's prioritization of and organization regarding these offenses changed in late 2019.
The Procurement Collusion Strike Force (PCSF) and procurement cases have become mainstays of the US DOJ Antitrust Division's criminal cartel enforcement efforts since that time. Through a combination of its durable design, favorable circumstances for its growth, and the Antitrust Division's own diligence in building a network that spans the procurement landscape and prioritizes procurement cases, the PCSF is poised to play a prominent role in US cartel enforcement and maintain the Division's enforcement focus on public procurements in the coming years.
This article analyzes the PCSF's development and progress to date and assesses the initiative's progress so far in its own "detect and deter" mission.
Read the full CPI Antitrust Chronicle article, "The US approach to cartel enforcement in public procurements."
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On 31 October 2023, the Screening of Third Country Transactions Act 2023 (the “Act”), which establishes a new foreign direct investment ("FDI") screening regime in Ireland, was enacted.
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The EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation, or FSR, is intended to prevent or remedy distortions of the EU internal market caused by “foreign” – meaning non-EU – subsidies benefitting companies active in the EU.
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The conventional wisdom is that ‘securitisation caused the great financial crisis’ (GFC). A further piece of conventional wisdom is that this was due to the misalignment of incentives between securitisation originators and securitisation investors . This conventional wisdom in turn drove much of the regulation of securitisation we now have.
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