{"id":9976,"date":"2025-06-03T10:53:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T08:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unlaw.it\/en\/?p=9976"},"modified":"2025-06-03T10:53:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T08:53:27","slug":"unicredit-legal-challenge-tests-limits-of-italian-foreign-investment-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unlaw.it\/en\/unicredit-legal-challenge-tests-limits-of-italian-foreign-investment-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"UniCredit legal challenge tests limits of Italian foreign investment regime &#8211; A contribution by Filippo Mazza on Global Competition Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How far can a State go in shaping strategic transactions? In a significant test case for Italy\u2019s investment screening regime, UniCredit has appealed the government\u2019s decision to impose conditions on its \u20ac14 billion bid for Banco BPM. The move challenges the use of Italy\u2019s golden power decree \u2014 and could have implications well beyond this single deal.<\/p>\n<p>In an article published by <strong>Global Competition Review<\/strong>, our partner <strong>Filippo Mazza<\/strong> shares his insights on the legal and political ramifications of this dispute, highlighting how the government\u2019s intervention may be more politically charged than past cases and how it may prompt greater scrutiny of procedural safeguards.<\/p>\n<p>As the European Commission continues its inquiry, the case could shape future enforcement practices across the EU.<\/p>\n<p>The full article is available to GCR subscribers <a href=\"https:\/\/globalcompetitionreview.com\/gcr-fic\/article\/unicredit-legal-challenge-tests-limits-of-italian-foreign-investment-regime\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How far can a State go in shaping strategic transactions? In a significant test case for Italy\u2019s investment screening regime, UniCredit has appealed the government\u2019s decision to impose conditions on its \u20ac14 billion bid for Banco BPM. The move challenges the use of Italy\u2019s golden power decree \u2014 and could have implications well beyond this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviste"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unlaw.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unlaw.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unlaw.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unlaw.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unlaw.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unlaw.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9977,"href":"https:\/\/www.unlaw.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976\/revisions\/9977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unlaw.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unlaw.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unlaw.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}