fDi Podcast

fDi Podcast

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fDi Podcast episodes

  • Fortress FDI #2 – European Union
    In the second episode of Fortress FDI, our mini-series on rising investment scrutiny and protectionism, Paulette Vander Schueren, a partner with law firm Mayer Brown, and Edouard Gergondet, an associate with Mayer Brown, discuss with podcast host Jacopo Dettoni the case of the European Union as the Commission issued new guidance urging each member state to set up a full fledged screening mechanism to monitor foreign investment. 

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    40 min
  • Fortress FDI #1 – Australia

    Chris Rosario of Squire Patton Boggs joins from Perth as the country reviews any FDI deal


    Covid-19 has made the argument for investment protectionism stronger as governments across the globe rush to protect strategic assets or even distressed assets from foreign investment and takeover. 


    In this mini-series of podcasts about investment protectionism we will take you around the globe to see how different countries are carving out their own FDI screening mechanisms and what it means for global trade and investment. First stop, Australia, where basically any foreign investment transaction, regardless of its value, is now subject to the review of the Foreign Investment Review Board. 


    Chris Rosario, a partner with law firm Squire Patton Boggs joins podcast host Jacopo Dettoni from Perth to discuss the recent changes introduced by the government led by prime minister Scott Morrison.


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    31 min
  • Covid-19 to expose governments to wave of claims
    Robert Volterra, partner with law firm Volterra Fietta, tells podcast host Jacopo Dettoni that those governments that went too far with their lockdown measures may be exposed to arbitration claims by foreign investors.

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    30 min
  • Three FDI sectors Covid-19 will change forever
    Covid-19 has disrupted global markets. While a majority of sectors hope to be able to go back to a "new normal" in the mid-term, others will have to adjust to longer lasting changes. The fDi team singles out three of the sectors that will never be the same again after Covid-19.

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    17 min
  • Has Trump become the law of the land - in the UK?

    The US administration has ramped up its secondary sanctions programmes against those whom it considers rogue states. Today more than ever, non-US companies outside the US jurisdiction are compelled to comply with these sanctions programmes. When UK-based Cynergy Bank refused to pay the interests it owed to a Cyprus-based counterpart, Lamesa Investments, on a £30 million loan stipulated before Lamesa's was caught in the net of US sanctions, the British High Court held that Cynergy's behavior was legit under British law. Joy Macknight, managing editor of The Banker magazine, discusses with podcast host Jacopo Dettoni the implications of the Lamesa-Cynergy case on non-US banks and foreign investors. Also featured in the podcast (in order of appearance):


    • Antonios Tzanakopoulo, associate professor of Public International Law, University of Oxford;
    • David Harris, partner, Norton Rose Fulbright;
    • Iain Stewart-Linnhe, founder, Stewart Linnhe;
    • Leigh Hansson, partner, ReedSmith. 

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    43 min
  • Navigating cannabis investment abroad
    Jon-Paul Doran, CEO & founder of UK medicinal cannabis company Eco Equity, tells fDi's Sebastian Shehadi about his experience of investing in the cannabis market in Zimbabwe and the Carribbean. The global cannabis market is growing at breakneck pace, however, navigating this 'green rush' is not easy and failure rates are extremely high. With cannabis stocks taking a plunge in the second half of 2019, it remains to be seen whether foreign investment in the industry will continue its exponential growth, as witnessed over the last few years.

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    23 min
  • Trump sets “new gold standard” for investment protection
    The new Nafta, renamed the United States – Mexico – Canada (USMCA) agreement, limits the scope for international arbitration and prevents general investors, except those active in a few sensitive sectors, to bypass domestic courts altogether. Orlando Cabrera, an associate lawyer with law firm Hogan Lovells in Mexico City, tells podcast host Jacopo Dettoni that against a background of mounting discontent towards typical investment protection provisions, the USMCA emerges as a possible new global paradigm for investment protection. 

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    18 min
  • FDI in the digital age
    What does the digital economy mean for businesses' international expansion? Nigel Vaz, CEO of digital transformation consultancy Publicis Sapient, discusses with fDi's Alex Irwin-Hunt how digitalisation is changing the need for physical presence in markets, how companies build trust with their customers and how investment promotion agencies support and attract FDI.

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    25 min
  • How to invest in social progress
    Michael Green, CEO of the Social Progress Imperative, tells fDi's Sebastian Shehadi how investors can use metrics around the social and environmental health of societies to make smart, ethical decisions and support projects relating to the Sustainable Development Goals.  

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    23 min
  • Hunting for string in the labyrinth. How can investors safely navigate current sanctions regimes?

    The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has made sanctions a distinctive element of his foreign policy. In fact, sanctions appears to have become his foreign-policy weapon of choice. He used (and enforced) them against numerous countries, from China all the way to Venezuela, Iran, North Korea and others. Investors suddenly had to adjust and find ways to deal with the White House’s growing level of economic aggressiveness. Matt Oresman, leading lawyer in the international public policy practice at law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman digs deeper into the perils of navigating sanctions regimes with  podcast host Jacopo Dettoni. 





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    21 min

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Exclusive analysis from fDi Intelligence, a publication from the Financial Times, on the latest trends and developments in the foreign investment world. Every month, fDi hosts and guests delve into a…