act legal partner at GLOBSEC Forum 2026: Legal perspectives on Europe’s evolving security landscape

As governments and industries across Europe respond to an increasingly complex geopolitical and regulatory environment, legal and strategic expertise in the defence and security sector is becoming more important than ever.

Against this backdrop, act legal was proud to partner with GLOBSEC Forum 2026, held on 21–23 May in Prague — one of Europe’s leading platforms for dialogue on security, geopolitics, technology, and economic resilience.

Europe’s changing security and regulatory landscape

This year’s discussions reflected many of the issues currently reshaping Europe’s legal and business environment: defence modernisation, critical infrastructure resilience, cybersecurity, energy security, strategic investments, supply chain resilience, AI governance, and the growing role of emerging technologies in security and defence.

Legal complexity across strategic sectors

For companies operating across regulated and strategically sensitive sectors, these developments are also driving increasing legal and compliance complexity across jurisdictions. Regulatory scrutiny around sanctions, export controls, foreign direct investment (FDI) screening, public procurement, cybersecurity obligations, and cross-border transactions continues to grow alongside Europe’s evolving security agenda.

At act legal, we advise clients across defence & aerospace, technology, infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, and other regulated industries on navigating these challenges in a rapidly changing environment.

act legal’s expertise in defence & security

With strong cross-border capabilities and deep expertise in complex regulated sectors, our teams provide legal support in areas including:

• defence & aerospace regulation,
• sanctions and export controls,
• public procurement and defence contracting,
• foreign direct investment (FDI) screening,
• cybersecurity and critical infrastructure regulation,
• technology and AI-related regulation,
• strategic cross-border transactions and investments. 

Supporting strategic dialogue in Europe

We were pleased to support a platform that brought together leaders from government, industry, investment, and the wider strategic community to discuss Europe’s future security and resilience agenda.