Wednesday, December 2, 2026
9:00 AM-9:30 AM
Registration and networking
9:30 AM-9:35 AM
GCR welcome remarks
9:35 AM-9:45 AM
Chairs welcome remarks
Jonas Koponen
Partner, Cooley
Veronica Roberts
Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
9:45 AM-10:15 AM
Keynote address
10:15 AM-11:15 AM
Mapping the UK NSI landscape: trends, priorities and emerging practice
- What do recent trends and the latest annual report reveal about the direction of the UK regime?
- Is a more pragmatic approach emerging, and what might this mean for investors and advisers involved in defence, renewable energy, space and critical minerals transactions?
- How is the UK’s approach developing within the wider European and global foreign investment landscape?
Veronica Roberts
Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Lisa Wright
Partner, Slaughter and May
Ioannis Kokkoris
Professor, Queen Mary University of London
11:15 AM-11:45 AM
Networking break
11:45 AM-12:45 PM
The EU Foreign Direct Investment Framework: Today’s practice and tomorrow’s strategy
- How is the EU cooperation mechanism operating in practice, and what does this mean for transactions reviewed across multiple member states?
- How might the evolving EU FDI framework influence filing strategies and decisions about where and when to notify?
- Looking ahead to the new EU FDI Regulation, how could greater coordination across member states reshape deal planning, information sharing and scrutiny in strategically important sectors such as defence technology, space and critical minerals?
Massimo Merola
Partner, Bonelli Erede
Tobias Pukropski
Partner, Rocan
12:45 PM-1:45 PM
Networking lunch
1:45 PM-2:45 PM
Beyond prohibition: the remedies shaping foreign investment deals
- What remedies are authorities agreeing across different FDI regimes, and how do they vary between jurisdictions and sensitive sectors?
- Which conditions allow transactions to proceed without undermining their commercial value, and when can a remedy become a deal breaker?
- How are parties negotiating and implementing confidential remedies in practice, with anonymised insights from defence, renewables and other sensitive sectors?
Andreas Schüssel
Partner, Gleiss Lutz
2:45 PM-3:45 PM
The EU Foreign Subsides Regulation in practice: enforcement, information and cross-border tensions
- What does early enforcement experience reveal about the FSR’s growing relevance to foreign investment review?
- How are dawn raids, procedural enforcement and expanding information demands shaping the approach taken by companies and advisers?
- Navigating conflicts between EU information requests and restrictions on sharing information in other jurisdictions, including China
3:45 PM-4:15 PM
Networking Break
4:15 PM-5:15 PM
The new geopolitics of investment: global pressure points and outbound controls
- How do different parts of the world view developments in foreign investment control, and how are geopolitical developments reflected in differing regional perspectives?
- What are the different pressure points across global investment screening regimes, and how do these translate into reviews and remedies?
- How are countries such as the US and China developing outbound FDI regimes, and could Europe and the UK introduce similar legislation?
Pedro Callol
Partner, Callol, Cocoa & Asociados
5:15 PM-5:25 PM
Chairs closing remarks
Jonas Koponen
Partner, Cooley
Veronica Roberts
Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
5:25 PM-5:30 PM
GCR closing remarks
5:30 PM-6:30 PM
Networking drinks reception
