Managing Principal Antoine Chapsal to Join Panel on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Screening
Event: Recent Developments and Challenges in FDI Screening Date: 16 November 2026 Host: Concurrences and Cleary Gottlieb Location: Brussels and virtual Times: 5:00–7:00 p.m. (CET)
Analysis Group Managing Principal Antoine Chapsal will join a panel of legal practitioners and US and EU policymakers to discuss developments and challenges in foreign direct investment (FDI) screening. He will offer his economic perspective on how authorities should strike the right balance between economic security, investment openness, and legal certainty. Drawing on findings from the Concurrences Foreign Direct Investment Guide, the panel will discuss the challenges facing investors and authorities, as well as the future of investment review in an increasingly geopolitical environment.
The panel will also feature Damien Levie (European Commission Directorate-General for Trade and Economic Security); Andrew Fair (US Department of the Treasury); and Cleary Gottlieb antitrust lawyers Isabel Rooms, François-Charles Laprévote, and Vladimir Novak.
Analysis Group is pleased to sponsor this event.
Associated People
Antoine Chapsal
Managing PrincipalDr. Chapsal is an economist who specializes in empirical and theoretical industrial organization. He has provided economic expertise in a large number of high-profile cases involving mergers, cartels, information exchanges, abuses of dominant positions, regulation, intellectual property matters, and damages quantifications. Recent examples include the Lafarge/Holcim and Fnac/Darty mergers, as well as airfreight, cathode ray tube, and elevator cartel cases. Dr. Chapsal has also assisted various firms in designing optimized pricing strategies and dealing with policy issues. His reports have been presented to the competition authorities of France, Germany, Austria, and South Africa; the European Commission; the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf; and the Court of Appeals, Conseil d’Etat, Conseil constitutionnel, and Tribunal of Commerce of Paris.
Prior to joining Analysis Group, Dr. Chapsal founded MAPP, a Paris- and Brussels-based economic consultancy, which was acquired by KPMG in 2018. Previously, he worked in a US competition economics consultancy. Dr. Chapsal regularly publishes articles on competition economics, on subjects ranging from the econometric analysis of cartels to geographic market delineation and exclusionary strategies. He is an affiliated professor at the Sciences Po Department of Economics and a member of the CESifo academic research network.