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Upcoming changes at Luther Luxembourg: Introducing our new Managing Partner

After 15 years at the helm of Luther Luxembourg, Eric Sublon hands over the reins to Bob Scharfe, who assumes the role of Managing Partner, effective from 1 January 2025.

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CMS Luxembourg renews its Management Board and announces new Managing Partner

International law firm CMS is pleased to announce the appointment of Vivian Walry as Managing Partner of its Luxembourg office, along with the appointment of Aurélien Hollard to t…

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DSM Avocats à la Cour celebrates its 20th anniversary

This year marks two decades of commitment to service to our clients, guided by our fundamental values: excellence, international, closeness, reactivity and availability.

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20/12/24
Key modifications to Luxembourg RBE and RCS Laws

On 19 December 2024, the Luxembourg Parliament adopted bill of law 7961 (La…

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18/12/24
EU adopts FASTER directive: a milestone for streamlining wit…

On 10 December 2024, the Council of the EU formally adopted the Faster and …

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Validité d’une saisie-arrêt

qui rappelle que les juridictions luxembourgeoises se reconnaissent compétentes « pour connaître de la validité de la saisie-arrêt pratiquée sur des s…

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Developments of the CJEU on the concept of “electronic communications service”

In two judgments issued during summer 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) provided certain guidance regarding the qualification …

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Coronavirus - key considerations for employers worldwide

The situation with Covid-19 (Coronavirus) is still developing and is being followed worldwide with great interest and obvious concern. In this briefin…

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Subscription Finance Collateral Package: a Cayman / Luxembourg comparison

In this briefing we look at the typical collateral packages provided in favour of a secured party in a subscription finance deal. This briefing f…

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Droits et obligations de l'employeur face au Coronavirus

De nombreux employeurs luxembourgeois n’ont pas attendu que soit déclaré le premier cas de coronavirus au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, ce week-end, pour…

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Contentieux immobilier

Le Tribunal rappelle qu’« un rapport d'expertise est inopposable à toute personne qui n'a pas été appelée ou représentée aux opérations d'expertise. L…

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FATCA & CRS reporting in Luxembourg: new draft bill submitted to the Parliament

On 20 February 2020, the Luxembourg government filed with Parliament the draft bill of law n°7527 modifying both the CRS law of 18 December …

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EBA's new mandate to lead AML/CFT supervision efforts across the entire EU financial sector

Following the entry into force of Regulation (EU) 2019/2175 of the European Parliament and of the Council on 1st January 2020 (the “Regulation”),…

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Luxembourg amends its CRS and FATCA Legislation

On 20 February 2020, a draft law was presented to Parliament which introduces some amendments to the Luxembourg legislation governing CRS (“Common Rep…

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Autorité de la chose jugée, suspension d’un contrat d’assurance

qui rappelle qu’ « il n’est pas permis au juge civil de méconnaître ce qui a été nécessairement et certainement jugé par le juge criminel ». En l…

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EU ECOFIN: revision of the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes

The Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) today adopted revised conclusions on the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes…

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AML/CFT CSSF Guidance on Compliance by Registered AIFMS and 2019 ML/TF Survey

On 5 December 2019, the CSSF published a communication summarizing results of an AML/CFT questionnaire as well as an AML/CFT conference conc…

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New transfer pricing guidance on financial transactions

On 3 July 2018, the OECD launched a consultation on the transfer pricing of financial transactions by publishing the first draft of a new chapter of t…

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CSSF Updates on IT Outsourcing by Supervised Institutions

As regards IT outsourcing of material activities by credit institutions, investment firms and professionals performing lending operations under Circul…

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CSSF calls virtual assets service providers active in Luxembourg to prepare for compliance

Following the adoption of the modified Interpretative Note to the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”) Recommendation 15 on New Technologies, the …

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Tax Flash: CJEU rules that Dutch tax rules on dividends paid to non-resident UCITS partly violate EU law

On 30 January 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) issued its judgement in the case of Köln Aktienfonds Deka (“KA Deka”). The CJE…

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Brexit: CSSF informs that UK entities may continue carrying out their activities in Luxembourg under their EU …

On 31 January 2020, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (“CSSF”) has published a press release in which it indicates that th…

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New communication from the CSSF to UK managers in the context of Brexit

Today, the Luxembourg financial supervisory authority (the CSSF) released a communication on Brexit1 which follows up on previous communications issue…

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Brexit will happen tonight. What next?

At midnight tonight Luxembourg time, the United Kingdom will leave the European Union. For business in the EU and the UK, nothing will change during 2…

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From complexity to simplicity – the new rules and regulations of the LuxSE enter into force today

The Luxembourg Stock Exchange’s new rules and regulations (the “R&Rs”) enter into force today, 31 January 2020, and will certainly be warmly welco…

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