Netherlands: International Trade & Investment

The Dutch government has prohibited a US IT company from acquiring Solvinity, the operator behind DigiD, the Netherlands' digital identity verification system. This decision raises important questions about how national security concerns intersect with foreign investment in critical telecommunications infrastructure and what legal mechanisms exist to protect public interests in the digital age.

Loyens & Loeff New York regularly posts ‘Snippets' on a range of EU tax and legal topics. This Snippet describes a selection of Pillar Two (‘P2') attention points in M&A tax due diligence (‘DD').

On 28 September 2016, the European Commission published its proposal to modernise the regulation on dealings in dual-use items (the EU Dual-Use Regulation).