Free Movement of Capital

Topics:

EU Freedom of Capital Movement, European Fundamental Freedoms, Direct Taxes, Investment Screening, Foreign Trade Law

Consultancy

Expert Declaration on Certain Issues in Public International Law before the Federal Court of Australia

24. July 2023

Expert Declaration on Certain Issues of International Investment Law and EU Law

30. June 2023

Expert Declaration on Certain Issues of International Investment Law and EU Law in the Proceeding before the Federal Court of Australia.

17. April 2023

Expert Declaration Addressing Certain Questions on Rules and Principles of EU Law before US Federal Court

7. April 2023

Expert Declaration on Certain Issues of International Investment and EU Law

1. March 2023

Two Expert Declarations in Enforcement Proceedings before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in the case of BayWa r.e. AG v. Spain

10. February 2023

Expert Declaration on Issues in International Energy Law and EU Law before Svea Court of Appeal

18. December 2022

Expert Declaration in Enforcement Proceedings before the Swedish Supreme Court in the case of Republiken Polen v. PL Holdings S.à.r.l.

14. December 2022

Expert Declaration on Certain Issues of International Investment Law and EU Law

27. November 2022

Several Expert Declarations in Enforcement Proceedings before US Federal Court

24. September 2022

Expert Declaration in Enforcement Proceedings before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in the case of RWE Renewables GmbH and RWE Renewables Iberia S.A.U. v. Spain

16. September 2022

Expert Declaration in Enforcement Proceedings before US Federal Court in RREEF Infrastructure (G.P.) Limited & ANOR v. Spain

15. August 2022

Expert Declarations in Enforcement Proceedings before US Federal Court

5. August 2022

Two Expert Declarations in Enforcement Proceedings before US Federal Court

1. July 2022

Expert Declaration on Certain Issues of International Investment Law and EU Law Proceedings before SCC

16. June 2022

Two Expert Opinions in Enforcement Proceedings before US Federal Court

16. May 2022

9REN Holdings S.À.R.L. v. Spanien, Legal opinion for the Kingdom of Spain on the compatibility of the Investor-State Dispute Resolution rules in the Energy Charter Treaty with Union law for submission to a US federal court

9. January 2021

Investment Screening – It Is Always Darkest Before the Dawn – Presentation at the Munich Security Conference International Law Forum 2020

13. February 2020

Legal Expert Opinion for an EU Member State on Limits Flowing from EU Law for Conducting Third Country Investment Screening

28. April 2017

Providing a Strategy Study for an EU Member State Government Relating to the Current Status of Investment Treaties among EU Member States and Possible Alternatives Jointly with an International Law Firm and German EU law scholar

28. November 2013

Legal Expert Report for an EU Member State on the Question of Compatibility of Intra-EU and Third Country Bilateral Investment Treaties with EU Law Jointly with a German EU law scholar

28. November 2011

Providing an Expert Opinion for an EU Member State Government in the Course of Legal Proceedings in a German Court Relating to the Challenge of an Investment Tribunal’s Award on Jurisdiction jointly with a German EU Law Scholar

28. November 2011

Publications

Risking the Rule of Law? The Relationship between Substantive Investment Protection Standards, Human Rights, and Sustainable Development (together with Patricia Sarah Stöbener de Mora und Niels Lachmann)

18. August 2023

Report on the CELIS Forum on Investment Screening (in collaboration with Jens Hillebrand Pohl)

18. January 2023

Guest Editorial: Privatising Investment Control: A Renaissance for Restricted Shares? (in collaboration with Jens Hillebrand Pohl)

18. September 2021

The Art of Casting Political Dissent in Law: The EU’s Framework for the Screening of Foreign Direct Investment (in collaboration with Andreas Moberg)

18. December 2020

The Art of Casting Political Dissent in Law: The EU’s Framework for Screening of Foreign Direct Investment

11. September 2020

Towards a “Common European Law on Investment Screening (CELIS)

10. September 2020

A Complex Setting of Cooperation and (potential) Conflict – Regulation (EU) 2019/452 in a Doctrinal Perspective

10. September 2020

Enemy at the Gates? Die aktuellen Änderungen der Investitionsprüfvorschriften in der Außenwirtschaftsverordnung im Lichte des Unionsrechts (Enemy at he Gates? Recent Changes in the German rules on Investment Screening in the Light of EU Law)

13. November 2017

Der Einfluss der Grundfreiheiten auf direkte Steuern (The Impact of EU Law on Direct Taxation)

25. April 2014

EU Law Determinants of the German Tax Law (orig. lang. Japanese)

1. March 2013

Die steuerliche Behandlung drittstaatlicher Dividenden und die europäischen Grundfreiheiten – Die teilweise (Wieder-)Eröffnung des Schutzbereiches der Kapitalverkehrsfreiheit für Dividenden aus drittstaatlichen Direktinvestitionen – zugleich eine Besprechung des Urteils in der Rechtssache Test Claimants in the FII Group Litigation II (The Tax Treatment of Dividends originating from Non-EU Countries and EU Fundamental Freedoms)

1. January 2013

Articles 63 to 66 and Article 75 TFEU (Free Movement of Capital and Payments)

1. January 2013

International Investment Law and EU Law

1. December 2011

The EU’s Common Investment Policy – Connecting the Dots: Origins, Trends, and Perspectives

11. January 2011

Die Gemeinsame Europäische Investitionspolitik – Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen?; Basis und Entwicklungslinien der Unionskompetenz zur Regelung ausländischer Investitionen (The Common European Investment Policy – Old Wine in New Skins?; The Basis and Development Directions of the EU Regulatory Competence on Foreign Investment)

8. October 2010

Internationaler Investitionsschutz und Europarecht (International Investment Protection and EU Law)

8. October 2010

Gestufte Freiheitsverbürgung? – Art. 63 Abs. 1 AEUV (ex-Art. 56 Abs. 1 EG) im Drittstaatenkontext (Applying Double Standards? – Art. 63 (1) TFEU (ex-Art. 56 (1) TEC) in a Third-Country Context)

1. January 2010

Direktinvestitionen und die Europäische Kapitalverkehrsfreiheit im Drittstaatenverhältnis (Direct Investments and the European Freedom of Capital Movement in a Third Country Context)

4. September 2009

The Free Movement of Capital and Foreign Direct Investment: The Scope of Protection in EU Law

9. July 2009

Wie viel Freiheit wagen? Das Verhältnis von EG Kapitalverkehrs- und Niederlassungsfreiheit und die Reglementierung von Direktinvestitionen in und aus Drittstaaten (The Relationship of the EC Freedoms of Capital Movement and Establishment und the Regulation of Direct Investments Originating from or Directed to Third Countries)

29. January 2008

The EC Treaty’s Freedom of Capital Movement as an Instrument of International Investment Law? The Scope of Article 56 (1) TEC in a Third Country Context and the Influence of Competing Freedoms

10. December 2007

Conference Presentations

Investment Screening and the Right to be Heard – The Role of Counter-Evidence Presented by Investors

9. September 2020

Investment Screening in the European Union – 12 Nov 2020 – 13 Nov 2020, Brussels

5. May 2020

CELIS Virtual Symposium 2020 – A Common European Law on Investment Screening, 29-30 April 2020

20. April 2020

Investment Screening – It Is Always Darkest Before the Dawn – Presentation at the Munich Security Conference International Law Forum 2020

13. February 2020

Public Defence of Ph.D. Thesis of Dr Hannes Lenk at Gothenburg University

20. September 2019

Presentation on “Regulating Digital Business Models as a Source of (Future) Investment Disputes” at the Frankfurt Investment Law Workshop 2019 on International Investment Law in the Age of Digitalization

9. March 2019

Co-hosting CELIS Conference – A Common European Law on Investment Screening

9. March 2019

Beyond Achmea: The Court of Justice of the European Union and the Future of Investment Arbitration

24. April 2018

Cooperation, Coexistence, or Opposition? Investor-State dispute settlement on the basis of European comprehensive free trade agreements and the Court of Justice of the European Union

16. October 2017

Predators in the pond of jurisdiction? The EU constitutional restraints on investor-State dispute settlement provisions in European comprehensive free trade agreements.

4. October 2017

Europarechtliche Determinanten des deutschen Steuerrechts (European Law Determinants of German Tax Law)

29. September 2012

The EC Treaty’s Freedom of Capital Movement as an Instrument of International Investment Law?

15. June 2007