The Legal Infrastructure of Rearmament: Which Law Firms Make Defence Transactions Executable

European rearmament is usually described through budgets, orders, factories, acquisitions and public companies. Yet every major defence transaction also depends on a legal-execution chain that determines whether industrial intent can become enforceable ownership, cleared capital deployment, transferable technology, valid procurement continuity and authorised export capacity.

In defence, a signed agreement is rarely sufficient. Sensitive assets must pass through merger control, foreign-investment screening, national-security review, golden power procedures, export-control analysis, sanctions checks, procurement rules and, in contested cases, administrative or judicial scrutiny.

This analysis answers: What legal-execution gates - merger control, FDI screening, golden power, export control, sanctions, procurement - make defence transactions executable? How do documentary case files and jurisdictional patterns show industrial intent becoming enforceable ownership and cleared capital? Which law firms map to these gates, and how do they shape the execution chain? What are the strategic implications for rearmament transactions when legal execution, not signed agreements, is decisive?