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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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Each day we publish several articles written by legal and tax specialists from law firms, notaries offices, the legal departments from payroll agencies and tax consultants.

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

On 11 October 2019, the Luxembourg supervisory authority, the CSSF, issued a new press release in relation to the mandatory notification process in th…

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Equity tokens and shares: similar but not quite so

A digital world calls for digital assets. Investors’ interest in equity tokens as a new way to invest and get ownership in a company is on the rise.

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Luxembourg's national risk assessment of money laundering and terrorist financing is now available!

The Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (the “CSSF”) has published on 9 October 2019 a press release in which it informs profess…

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New Rules for the Digital Economy (and other Economies too...)

The idea to tax the digital economy shifts slowly towards new taxation rights and new profit allocation rules that may affect more than just tech comp…

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OECD heading beyond the arm’s-length principle without ring-fencing the digital economy

On 9 October 2019, the OECD published a proposed unified approach to reform profit allocation rules (Pillar One of its working plan to address the tax…

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Restructuring & Insolvency – Briefing note 2/2

This is the second of a series of two briefing notes published by the Restructuring & Insolvency practice of Arendt on recent or ongoing legislati…

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Input Vat on Fees Relating to the Investment of Donations and Endowments

On 3 July 2019, the ECJ published a judgment (C‑316/18 University of Cambridge v HMRC) clarifying whether input VAT relating to fees, p…

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L’autorisation d’établissement

Toute entreprise s’établissant au Luxembourg et exerçant, à titre principal ou accessoire, une activité indépendante dans le domaine du commerce,…

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State aid update: EU General Court sets framework for the European Commission to enforce arm’s length transfer…

On 24 September 2019, the EU General Court upheld the Commission’s decision that Fiat received unlawful State aid from Luxembourg, and at the same tim…

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IBORs: EONIA to €STR transition started today

The transition from the Euro OverNight Index Average ("EONIA") to a new interest rate based exclusively on actual transactions – the euro short-term r…

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Ilo Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190)

On 21 June 2019, the International Labour Organization (“ILO”) adopted Convention No.190 concerning the elimination of violence and harassment in the …

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Loi du 10 août 1915 concernant les sociétés commerciales (en vigueur au 1er octobre 2019)

Vous trouverez ci-dessous une version à jour de la loi du 10 août 1915 concernant les sociétés commerciales dans sa version coordonnée par le règlemen…

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Luxembourg to create new regime for dormant bank accounts and unclaimed insurance contracts

Banks and insurance companies have a growing number of accounts, safes, and insurance contracts which have been inactive for several years and which i…

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ESG: how can clients avoid 'greenwashing'?

As environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles become increasingly mainstream and with asset managers under increasing pressure to embrace t…

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Entry into Force of the US | Luxembourg Double Tax Treaty

On 9 September 2019, the Luxembourg Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna and the United States (“U.S.”) Ambassador to Luxembourg exchanged ratification in…

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Amendments to the Benchmark Regulation

Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on indices and financial contracts or to measure the performanc…

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Bill on Inactive Accounts, Inactive Safes and Unclaimed Insurance Contracts

On 6 August 2018, Bill No. 7348 on inactive accounts, inactive safes and unclaimed insurance contracts (the ‘Bill’) was submitted to the Luxembourg Ch…

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Restructuring & Insolvency – Briefing note 1/2

Part 1 – Update on the upcoming reform of Luxembourg insolvency law

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Luxembourg parallel fund structures

Luxembourg is the largest European and the second largest worldwide fund domicile, due to its efficiency, flexibility and its professional, well-estab…

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New Rules for Cross-border Conversions, Mergers and Divisions. Scope and Main Sensitive Provisions

On April 25, 2018, the European Commission published a proposal for a directive1 amending directive 2017/11322 by introducing…

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