On 19 December 2024, the Luxembourg Parliament adopted bill of law 7961 (La…
On 10 December 2024, the Council of the EU formally adopted the Faster and …
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Following the 2016 referendum vote and the formal withdrawal notification, the UK should in principle not be subject to European legislation as from 3…
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Yesterday (21 June 2018), the European Court ruled in favour of a Fidelity investment fund that had suffered Danish withholding tax at a higher rate t…
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The new directive (Directive EU 2018/843) on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terro…
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La démission du salarié pour motif grave dans le chef de l’employeur n’est soumise à aucune règle de forme et le salarié n’est partant pas obligé de c…
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On 15 June 2018 the Luxembourg government approved 2 new bills of law: - the first bill of law (“ATAD Bill”) implements the provisions of the Council…
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The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) handed down an eagerly awaited decision in a dispute about Christian Louboutin's “red sole ma…
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Today (20.06), the draft law implementing the EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive (“ATAD”) was released. While the main purpose of the draft law is to imp…
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The Benelux Convention on Intellectual Property (BCIP) has been amended as of June 1st. The Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP) will have …
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On 12 March 2018 the European Commission issued legislative proposals to amend the existing legal framework for the cross-border distribution of inves…
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Contrairement aux conclusions de A, il ne résulte pas de la lettre de licenciement que le lieu d’habitation du salarié eût été le motif justifiant son…
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On 12 June 2018, the Court of Justice of the EU rendered its much-awaited judgement in the case about Louboutin’s red sole trade mark, ruling that thi…
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Algorithms is the hot topic in competition law. In June 2017, the OECD published a paper on the risk of collusion in the use of algorithms. This issue…
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On 31 May 2018, the law on markets in financial instruments (the “2018 Law”) as well as the grand-ducal regulation relating to safeguarding of financi…
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On 20 December 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decided on two cases involving German anti-abuse legislation that denies a (par…
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This Focusing on Funds update looks at a specific hot tax topic affecting how and where funds are structured. In addition to the increased general foc…
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« La juridiction du travail qui conclut à l’irrégularité formelle du licenciement en raison de la violation d’une formalité qu’elle juge substantielle…
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The new directive on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorism financing (2016/0208/COD) (th…
Read MoreA l’aune où de plus en plus de start-ups technologiques mettant en place des systèmes de paiement sont constituées à Luxembourg, un outil pouvant les …
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Further to the passing of draft law No 7024 on 6 February 2018 by the Chamber of Deputies, the law of 27 February 2018 on interchange fees and amendin…
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The new act on markets in financial instruments (the “MiFID Act”), transposing Directive 2014/65/EU on markets in financial instruments (“MiFID II”) a…
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