Many similarities and occasional differences are evident in New Zealand (as explained in Part 2) and Australia (Part 3) concerning their laws screening foreign direct investment (FDI) and current approaches towards investment treaties, including the now politically sensitive issue of...

New Zealand's newly elected Labour coalition government announced in October 2017 that it would not agree to investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions in future trade and investment agreements, and would try to amend them in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. This has...

The Overseas Investment Act 2005 regulates the entry of foreign investment into New Zealand by screening investment proposals that fall within the Act’s definitions of “significant business assets” and “sensitive land”. Calls for reform or repeal of the Act which are aimed at...