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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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Les principales clauses conventionnelles tendant à restreindre la libre cessibilité des titres dans les S.A. e…

Sous l’influence du droit anglo-saxon, nous assistons depuis plusieurs années au développement exponentiel en droit luxembourgeois des conventions ext…

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Overviews of the new corporate governance rules after the adoption of the Law on Modernisation

Management rules and authority With respect to SARL: possibility - to provide in the Articles an authorised share capital mechanism; - to delegat…

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Supervision at the workplace

A draft law n°7184 establishing the National Commission for Data Protection and implementing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was publish…

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Case Law on Private Wealth Management

The Luxembourg Income Tax Code assesses Luxembourg taxpayers differently, depending upon whether they realise business income or income from private f…

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New Luxembourg IP Box regime adopted

On 22 March 2018 the Luxembourg Parliament (Chambre des députés) adopted the new IP Box Law (see our newsflash “Tax changes for 2018 disclosed in th…

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CSSF’s change of policy regarding UCITS eligible investments

The CSSF provides in Press Release 18/02 that the eligibility criteria of such target UCI (“Target UCI”) under Article 50(1)(e) of the UCITS Directive…

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Recent significant corporate litigation case law

The Luxembourg District Court had the opportunity to specify the requirements and procedure of the judicial management report provided for in article …

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A new IP regime in Luxembourg

The bill of Law n°7163 implementing the new tax regime applicable to intellectual property assets (the “new IP regime”) was approved by a first consti…

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New France-Luxembourg Double Tax Treaty

On 20 March, 2018, France and Luxembourg signed a new Double Tax Treaty (“DTT”), which was released yesterday. The aim of the new DTT is to replace th…

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Political agreement reached on EU proposal setting new transparency rules for intermediaries

Yesterday (13th March), the EU Finance Ministers reached a political agreement on the Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2011/16/EU a…

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New IP regime passed by the Parliament

Today (22th March), the draft law introducing the new Luxembourg BEPS-compliant Intellectual Property (IP) regime was passed by the Parliament. With r…

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L’absence injustifiée ne constitue pas une faute

L’absence injustifiée de A ne constitue pas automatiquement un fait ou une faute autorisant le renvoi immédiat du salarié, le juge devant encore appré…

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New double tax treaty between France and Luxembourg: substantial impact on real estate investors

On 20 March 2018, the governments of France and Luxembourg signed a new double tax treaty (“New Treaty”) replacing the current treaty dated 1 April 19…

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EU Commission publishes proposals on digital economy taxation

On 21 March 2018, the European Commission (EU Commission) proposed two Council Directives addressing the taxation of the digital economy. The int…

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Cross-border distribution of investment funds: a proposal for harmonisation

Reducing barriers for cross-border distribution of investment funds within the EU, thus reducing the costs of going cross-border, while deepening the …

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EU legislative proposals to facilitate the cross-border distribution of investment funds

On 12 March 2018, in the context of the Capital Markets Union Action Plan and further to consultations conducted by the European Commission with natio…

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CSSF warnings on ICOs, tokens and cryptocurrencies

Fintech leads the way in the rapidly changing world of financial services, and the industry is keen to position Luxembourg as an innovation hub. Among…

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Crocs killed its own design through public disclosure

The General Court of the EU confirmed the cancellation of the registration for the famous design of Crocs clogs on the ground that it was disclosed to…

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Luxembourg based ICO's: new guideline from the CSSF

Initial coin offering (the “ICO”) and, more generally speaking, crypto-currencies related topics are at the heart of the current discussions in the Gr…

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CSSF warning notice on Initial Coin Offering

In a precedent newsflash dated November 16th 2017, we informed you about a press release issued by the Luxembourg Commission de Su…

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