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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.

It is the perfect way for lawyers at the Bar, in-house counsel, barristers, solicitors, notaries, bailiffs, paralegals and any other legal professional with an interest in Luxembourg and European law to keep informed of new legislative initiatives, case law, legal doctrine and all other legal developments on the Belgian legal scene!

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New IP Tax Regime

On 22 March 2018, the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies adopted the new intellectual property box regime with effect from 1 January 2018 and which includ…

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New Luxembourg IP regime

Luxembourg introduces a new intellectual property ("IP") tax effective as of tax year 2018.

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Transparency vs.Data Protection :Questions raised by the draft law 7217/00 on the creation of Luxembourg Regis…

On 20 May 2015, the European Parliament adopted the Directive (EU) 2015/849 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of m…

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The Luxembourg Double Tax Treaties Network

The Grand Duchy treaty partners are amongst the most industrialised countries with inter alia all of the states in the European Union but Cyprus, the …

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The Future of Luxembourg Investment Funds in the Next Decade (1)

The fund industry is permanently evolving, but incremental changes are hardly noticed. Sometimes however, industries undergo radical changes, where th…

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Brexit : Update

On 23 March 2018, the European Council approved the text of the Draft Agreement on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU as proposed by the Commission on 19…

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Implementation of the 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive

The law of February 13th 2018 (“AMLD Law”) which entered into force on February 18th2018 has now implemented most of the outstanding provisions o…

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Reform of the Labour Code by the Law dated 8 April 2018

In our previous Newsletter dated 8 February 2018[1] regarding the latest modifications of the Labour Code and ongoing projects, we reviewed the p…

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Important changes to Benelux Trade Mark Law as per June 1, 2018

The Benelux trade mark System will undergo two important changes as per June 1, 2018. Appeals from decisions of the Benelux Office for Intellectual P…

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Le crowdsourcing est devenu, avec l’avènement des économies collaboratives, une pratique très répandue, partic…

Il s’agit de l’opération par laquelle il est appelé de manière ouverte et publique à un large groupe de personnes non nécessairement professionnelles …

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Virtual currencies and initial coin offerings

The CSSF (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier) has recently published two warnings on its website regarding in particular the si…

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The Luxembourg VAT group is coming

On 13 April 2018, the Ministry of Finance communicated the draft bill n°7278 to the Parliament. This draft bill proposes to implement a VAT group regi…

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Luxembourg introduces VAT grouping regime

Bill of law: following existing VAT grouping regimes in other EU Member States, the Luxembourg Government has now proposed the adoption of a VAT group…

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Marchés publics au Luxembourg: entrée en vigueur des nouvelles dispositions

​Après avoir été votée une première fois le 8 février 2018, puis revotée le 14 mars 2018[1], la loi du 8 avril 2018 sur les marchés publics a été…

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Introduction of the Luxembourg VAT group regime (bill of law n°7278)

On 13 April 2018, the Luxembourg Government introduced the bill of law n°7278 before the Parliament. This bill will implement the VAT group into Luxem…

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Clarification of UCIs Part II: Depositary Regime

Under the law of 10 May 2016 transposing UCITS Directive 2014/91/EU (UCITS V), it was originally expected that all undertakings for collective investm…

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The new Law on commercial lease (Part 1: scope of the Law and new restrictions)

The Law is the result of the willingness of our legislator to define a new legal framework which is supposed to avoid dysfunctions resulting from spec…

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Proceedings Before the Inspectorate

On 10 January 2018, the Act creating the Data Protection Authority (the “Act”) was published in the Belgian State Gazette. This newsletter provides in…

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Overview on the put and call options rights in Luxembourg

1. Main features and interests Put options The purpose of a put option is to grant its beneficiary with a right to sell securities (generally, shares…

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Data Protection and Privacy Update – March 2018

On 13 April 2018, the National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) will organize new courses on the basics of data protection. These courses are aim…

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