France FDI Screening: Legal and Strategic Framework (English Edition)

France's Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) screening regime has become a defining-and often decisive-step in M&A involving strategic assets and sensitive technologies. Over the last decade, it has evolved into a core element of deal structuring in France, now as essential as antitrust review or broader regulatory compliance.

France retains powerful tools to safeguard national interests when a foreign investor acquires an interest in a company that performs public-authority functions or carries...