Luxembourg’s Parliament recently amended the bill of law implementing the C…
On 28 October 2024, the EU Commission published a proposal to amend the dir…
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On February 2, 2015, the Luxembourg government filed with the Chamber of Deputies bill 6777 (the Bill).introducing a new type of private limited liabi…
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On 9 January 2015, ESMA published an updated version of its Q&A on its guidelines on ETFs and other UCITS issues. In summary
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On 30 December 2014, the Luxembourg Commission for the Supervision of the Financial Sector (the "CSSF") published its first FAQ concerning the Law of …
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The Law of 28 July 2014 concerning the compulsory deposit and immobilisation of shares and units in bearer form (the "Law") imposes the compulsory dep…
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As per our previous article dated 2014 in relation to the law dated July 28th 2014 on the immobilisation of shares and corporate units in bearer form …
Read MoreInstead of abolishing bearer shares as already done or planed to be done by some neighboring countries, the Luxembourg lawmaker, after leading an in-d…
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The Law of 28 July 2014 concerning the compulsory deposit and immobilisation of shares and units in bearer form (the "Law") was published in the Mémor…
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On 10 July 2014, the Court of Appeals confirmed the conditions set forth mainly by the French courts regarding the mechanism of capital restructuring …
Read MoreThe Luxembourg District Court sitting in commercial matters has declared bankrupt the group parent company ESPIRITO SANTO INTERNATIONAL S.A. (ESI) on …
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Regulation (EU) 909/2014 on improving securities settlement in the European Union and on central securities depositories ("CSD Regulation") was publis…
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The Law of 12 July 2014 approved the issue of a sovereign Sukuk in the amount of € 200 million by a special purpose vehicle ("SPV") wholly owned by th…
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Within the framework of its tasks, the "Banque centrale de Luxembourg" (the Luxembourg Central Bank) has to transmit comprehensive and reliable statis…
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As from 1 November 2014, all filings with the Trade and Companies Register (registre du commerce et des sociétés) ("RCS") must be done electronically …
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On 30 September 2014, ESMA published an updated version of its Q&A on the application of the AIFMD.
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On 8 August 2014, ESMA published the translation of the Guidelines on reporting obligations under Articles 3(3) d and 24(1), (2) and (4) of the AIFMD …
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The UCITS V Directive (Directive 2014/91/EU of 23 July 2014 on UCITS as regards depositary functions, remuneration policies and sanctions) ("UCITS V")…
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CSSF Circular 14/591 (the "Circular") confirms the administrative practice of the CSSF in the case of a material change to investors' interests in an …
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Directive 2013/14/EU (the "Directive") amends different pieces of EU legislations including, but not limited to, the UCITS directive and the AIFMD. Ac…
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ESMA Opinion 2014/1103 (the "Opinion") aims at amending the guidelines issued by CESR (CESR/10-049) in 2010 on a common definition of European money m…
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ESMA Guidelines 2014/937 (the "Guidelines") amend the guidelines on ETFs and other UCITS issues dated 18 December 2012 and provide new rules on the co…
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