Non-Transfer Restrictions on EU-Funded Defence R&D in European Defence M&A

How EDF and EDIP are changing IP due diligence, control analysis, and licensing strategy

In European defence transactions, intellectual property is often assessed as an ordinary asset class: counsel verifies ownership, traces chain of title, reviews licences, and tests change-of-control consequences under corporate and contract law. That approach becomes inadequate when the target holds results generated under EU-funded defence programmes. …