With a steadily increasing list of activities within international mergers and acquisitions transactions that can trigger regulators’ attention, all parties involved are chasing their tails trying to figure out how to work through the complex criteria.

To try and ease the spiderweb of regulation, last week, Hogan Lovells launched a BRYTER-powered app called the German Foreign Investment Control Guide that looks to allow the buyers, sellers and target companies to identify whether the transaction in question will trigger a foreign direct investment (FDI) screening by the German government, further lengthening the process.