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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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EMIR Refit – Key Changes

On 28 May 2019, EMIR Refit, the Regulation (EU) 2019/834 of 20 May 2019 amending Regulation (EU) 648/2012, was published in the Official Journal of th…

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RBO filing it’s now

The Luxembourg law dated 13 January 2019 (the RBO Law) created a register of beneficial owners (registre des bénéficiaires effectifs) (the RBE), with …

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Licenciement économique – suppression de poste – licenciement abusif (oui)

Il est exact que l’employeur, qui décide seul de la politique économique de son entreprise, de son organisation interne et des modalités techniques de…

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Fund finance lending: a practical checklist

In this chapter we have tried to set out some of the key issues that a lender and its counsel need to consider when entering into a typical subscripti…

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L'instauration d’un mécanisme de règlement des différends fiscaux bientôt en vigueur

Le 11 avril 2019, M. Pierre Gramegna, Ministre des Finances, a déposé le projet de loi n°7431 à la chambre des Députés qui vise à transposer en droit …

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Commitments MasterCard and Visa accepted by European Commission

The European Commission (the Commission) accepted commitments offered by MasterCard and Visa that would reduce inter-regional multilateral interc…

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Insurance companies: are you ready for IDD?

Getting ready for IDD requires advance preparation: two important areas include identifying affected employees and establishing training.

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ESMA updates AIFMD and UCITS Q&A

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published and updated version of its questions and answers (Q&A) documents related to the…

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Tax Dispute Resolution Mechanism: New Bill of Law

The Bill of Law 7431 ("Bill”) introduced by the Luxembourg government on 11 April 2019  implements the European Union (“EU”) Directive …

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Less than three months left for RBO filing!

The 4th EU AML Directive1, as amended by the 5th EU AML Directive 2, requires each Member State of the EU inter alia to establish registers …

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The Amended Luxembourg PE Definition: Is There Really Something New?

The 2019 tax reform implements the EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive (“ATAD”) and other Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (“BEPS”) related measures into …

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Luxembourg Rules on Exchange of Information upon Request: A New Chapter

On 14 March 2019, less than one month after the law of 25 November 2014 on exchange of information upon request (the “2014 Law”) was amended in order …

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Acquisition of shares: No abuse of dominance

By Decision 2019-R-01 of 15 March 2019, the Competition Council (“Council”) dismissed the complaint filed against Encevo S.A. (“Encevo”), En…

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Luxembourg Ratifies the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosi…

On 9 April 2019, Luxembourg deposited its instruments of ratification for the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prev…

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Tax Challenges of the Digitalisation of the Economy – new OECD work programme

On 31 May 2019, the OECD published its programme of work for developing a solution to the tax challenges arising from the digitalisation of the econom…

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Corporate Tax Reform 2019 – Part 2

On 25 April 2019, the law on the 2019 budget was passed by Luxembourg Parliament. The law mainly introduces the following corporate income tax measure…

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Third country firms providing investment services on a cross-border basis – challenging times

One of the consequences of the implementation of MiFID II into Luxembourg law is the creation of a new regime for third country firms providing invest…

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Approval of the 2019 Budget Law

On 25 April 2019, the Chambre des Députés approved the Bill of Law 7450 as part of the draft Luxembourg budget for the 2019 financial year w…

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CSSF issues new guidance on the AML/CFT Investment Fund Questionnaire

On Thursday 23 May 2019, the Luxembourg Supervisory Authority of the Financial Sector (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier or CSSF) publis…

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Dégâts sur véhicules de fonction – responsabilité de l’employé – risques engendrés par l’employeur – reconnais…

Comme la responsabilité du salarié ne constitue pas un simple fait, susceptible d’aveu, mais une question de droit relevant de l’appréciation de la ju…

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