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Helping businesses clear legal regulatory hurdles in Europe
Regulatory & International Trade | RIT
Regulatory & International Trade | RIT
Helping businesses clear legal regulatory hurdles in Europe

EU Industrial Accelerator Act: A new layer of investment control, industrial policy and strategic autonomy

By and on 2026-03-11

The EU Industrial Accelerator Act IAA will significantly reshape deal structuring and operations in strategic sectors, requiring early assessment of foreign investment constraints, governance and IP arrangements, and EU-origin content rules, while signalling a broader EU shift toward embedding technological sovereignty, supply chain resilience, and security considerations into industrial regulation. This alert summarizes the key provisions and their practical implications for foreign investors, EU companies, and supply chain participants.

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Stéphane Dionnet
Stéphane Dionnet is co-head of McDermott’s Antitrust Mergers Focus Group and has over 20 years of experience practicing international competition law, and has experience liaising with competition authorities in the European Union, United States and Asia. Stéphane has advised global corporations on how to navigate complex multijurisdictional merger control matters. He has represented clients in numerous cartel investigations and has also successfully assisted companies in obtaining conditional immunity from the European Commission and other competition law agencies in and outside the European Union.


Sabine Naugès
Sabine Naugès counsels clients on all aspects of public law, including administrative and regulatory, competition and constitutional law. Among other high-profile clients, Sabine has advised telecommunications companies France Télécom and Orange on regulatory matters in cases before administrative and commercial courts, and before EU and French competition authorities. She also regularly represents major companies with interests in a wide range of industries, including aerospace, energy, oil and gas, and public health care, before the French government and in litigation, in a range of regulatory and administrative matters.

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