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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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EU Council adopts VAT Implementing Regulation on new VAT rules for e-commerce

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Luxembourg 2020 budget law introducing new tax measures and law implementing ATAD II passed

Today, the budget law for 2020 and the law implementing into domestic law Council Directive (EU) 2017/952 of 29 May 2017 (“ATAD II”) have been passed …

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ATAD 2 Law adopted

On 19 December 2019, the Luxembourg Parliament adopted the law transposing the Council Directive (EU) 2017/952 of 29 May 2017 (the so-called “ATAD 2”)…

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CJ rules that non-EU pension funds can obtain the refund of dividend withholding tax

CJ rules that non-EU pension funds can obtain the refund of dividend withholding tax if they are comparable to domestic pension funds (College Pension…

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AMLD V Implementation

In the context of the implementation process of AMLD V1, on 8 August 2019, the Luxembourg government introduced a draft Bill of Law2 (“Bill …

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Regulation amending the Benchmarks Regulation published

Regulation (EU) 2019/2089 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 amending Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 (the “Benchmarks Regula…

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European Supervisory Authorities - Legality and judicial control of their activity

On 4 December 2019, the French Conseil d'Etat, at the request of the French Banking Federation, referred important questions to the Court of Justice o…

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Reaching year-end, here are the latest AML communications from the CSSF

The Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (the “CSSF”) has communicated several press releases related to the fight against money …

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Buying alliances in Europe are under threat

On Monday 18 November 2019 the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets ("ACM") announced that the regulator had dawn raided several large traders in…

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CJ rules on assessment of abusive practices and refusal to grant VAT deduction (Kuršu zeme)

On 10 July 2019, the CJ delivered its judgment in the case Kuršu zeme (C-273/18). The Latvian company SIA Kuršu zeme deducted input VAT charged to it …

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New transparency rules in Luxembourg

New transparency rules in Luxembourg: identification of the beneficial ownership of trusts, fiducies and of similar legal arrangements and registratio…

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Upcoming Phased-in Implementation Timeline of SFTR

The Securities Financing Transaction Regulation n°2015/2365 of 25 November 2015 (“SFTR”) aims to enhance the transparency of markets in securities fin…

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PLUS: a new service offered by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange to comply with the hyperlink requirements of the …

The Luxembourg Stock Exchange has launched a new service, named PLUS for Perma Link Upload Service, to help issuers in referencing their documents via…

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DAC 6 Update - Where European jurisdictions stand regarding implementation?

DAC 6, the sixth amendment to the Directive on Administrative Cooperation (“DAC 6”) requiring so-called tax intermediaries to report, on a mandat…

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PSDII: migration to SCA by 31 December 2020

On 16 October 2019, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued an Opinion concerning one of the most important features of the Payment Services Direc…

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Strong customer authentication for e-commerce card payment transactions: an EU harmonised extension of 14 mont…

Following its June opinion on the possibility for national competent authorities to work with payment service providers and relevant stakeholders and …

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Litigation between shareholders and directors

District Court of Luxembourg - Civil judgment No. 2019TALCH20/00009 of 17 October 2019, Docket No. 164577

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New Version of the Bill Establishing a Register of Fiduciary Contracts and Trusts

Whilst the newly created Register of beneficial owners of companies and other legal entities has recently been implemented in Luxembourg by the law da…

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Solutions to the Lack of Taxonomy and Policing for Responsible Investment Products

The growth of investment products pursuing of environmental, social and governance (ESG) objectives is well documented, and it is estimated that funds…

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Relever le défi de la lutte contre la criminalité financière, tout en restant un acteur engagé du développemen…

L’actualité législative soutenue en matière de lutte contre le blanchiment d’argent et le financement du terrorisme, faisant écho à l’actualité des mé…

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