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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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Surveillance du salarié sur le lieu de travail – licéité de la preuve (oui) – secret de la correspondance

L’appelante, se référant à l’article 7 du contrat de travail qui stipule que le matériel informatique mis à disposition du salarié doit fait l’objet d…

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Court of Appeal confirms strong position of pledgee under collateral Law

The strong protection of secured parties under pledge agreements governed by the Luxembourg law of August 5th 2005 on financial collateral arrangement…

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La technologie Blockchain à l’aune du RGPD

Lors d’un panel qui s’est récemment tenu à Luxembourg sur le thème de l’art et de la finance, il a été l’occasion de revenir sur les mesures qui doive…

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Transitional measures for the Luxembourg financial sector in relation to a hard Brexit The Bill of Law (7401)

​On 31 January 2019, the Ministry of Finance has submitted a bill of law to the Luxembourg Parliament (the Bill 7401) as regards the measures to …

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Eba guidelines on reporting obligations under the PSD 2 in Luxembourg

The CSSF has adopted on December 17th 2018 the guidelines of the European Banking Authority on the notification of major operational or security …

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Transaction – définition – concessions réciproques (non).

Aux termes de l’article 2044 du code civil, « la transaction est un contrat par lequel les parties terminent une contestation née, ou préviennent une …

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The Luxembourg Register of Beneficial Owners

On 15 January 2019, the law establishing a Luxembourg register of beneficial owners (the "REBECO Act"), transposing Article 30 of the 4th AML Directiv…

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Happy World Privacy Day 2019!

The CNPD (Commission Nationale pour la Protection des données, or “CNPD”) has, until now, adopted a cooperative approach with the entities requesting …

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Draft Law to transpose EU Directive on long-term shareholder engagement into Luxembourg national Law

On January 11th 2019, the Council of the Government (Le Conseil de gouvernement) discussed a draft law (the “Draft Law”) which has as its purpose the …

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New draft law aiming at mitigating Brexit effects and safeguarding the interests of the Luxembourg financial a…

Today, a draft law was released which aims at ensuring that even in case of a hard Brexit, UK entities of the financial and insurance sectors with Lux…

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Consequences of a no-deal Brexit on personal data transfers to the UK

On 15 January 2019, the House of Commons of the United Kingdom voted against the Withdrawal Agreement negotiated between the UK government and the Eur…

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The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg implements the Register of Beneficial Owners Law

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has fulfilled its European obligations in the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism by transposi…

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Sales practices: geo-blocking and territorial segmentation of the market becoming more difficult in Luxembourg…

Since 3 December 2018, EU Regulation 2018/302 on addressing unjustified geo-blocking and other forms of discrimination based on customers' nationality…

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VAT Circular on transactions between related parties

On 18 January 2019, the Luxembourg VAT authorities published a new Circular (N°790), which clarifies the provisions of article 28, §3, of the VAT Law …

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Constitutional Court to rule on the compatibility of the procedure for exchange of information with the rule o…

In 2014, the Luxembourg legislator changed the procedural rules applicable to the exchange of information upon request, in tax matters.

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The Luxembourg Register of Beneficial Owners goes live on 1 March 2019

The Luxembourg law creating a register of beneficial owners transposing article 30 of Directive 2015/849 was adopted on 13 January 2019 and published …

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Key Changes Introduced by the Securitisation Regulation

Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2017 laying down a general framework for securitisation and cre…

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Maladie professionnelle – reclassement interne- comportement réfractaire de l’employeur – absence injustifiée …

La société S1 (Lux) GmbH reproche à A dans son courrier de licenciement avec effet immédiat les faits suivants : – un abandon de poste consécutif à u…

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Brexit and broadcasting: Luxembourg as the ideal gateway to provide audiovisual media services throughout the …

Since the UK Parliament has rejected the Withdrawal Agreement between the EU and the UK on 15 January 2019, a so-called "no deal" scenario becomes a b…

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Luxembourg Law on register of beneficial owners

The 4th EU AML Directive [1], as amended by the 5th EU AML Directive [2], requires each Member State of the EU inter alia to establish registers of be…

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