Investment Management

Articles - The CSSF published on Monday 16 May 2022 the Circular 22/811 on UCI administrators to clarify the CSSF current requirements by specifying the principles of sound governance and the CSSF expectations on internal organisation and good practices.

Articles - The CSSF published on 31 January 2022 the Circular 22/795 regarding the application of the ESMA Guidelines on marketing communications for Luxembourg investment funds (AIFs, UCITS). The ESMA Guidelines were issued under the Regulation (EU) 2019/1156 on the cross-border distribution of funds and establish notably: common principles on the identification of marketing communications and guidance on how certain information should be disclosed therein, while taking into account their on-line aspects.

Articles - On 6 July 2021 the European Commission adopted the much-awaited decision C(2021) 4858 final (the “Decision”) which provides, in its annex, very useful answers to the questions raised by the European Supervisory Authorities (i.e. the EBA, ESMA and EIOPA) in their letter dated 7 January 2021 on priority issues relating to the application of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (“SFDR” or “Level 1 requirements”).

Articles - Stibbe Luxembourg's Funds Partner Edouard d'Anterroches offers an analytic view on the margins and possibilities granted by the regulation on social entrepreneurship funds (EuSEF) to foster innovative impact investment solutions in the European Union.

Articles - The Luxembourg tax authorities (“LTA”) released a new circular on 20 January 2022 (PRE_IMM n°1) (the “Circular”) regarding the real estate levy previously introduced by the Luxembourg law of 19 December 2020 (the “Law”).  As from 1 January 2021, a 20% real estate levy (the “Real Estate Levy”) applies to real estate income derived by certain Luxembourg tax opaque investment vehicles owning directly, or indirectly through tax transparent entities, real estate assets located in Luxembourg.

Short Reads - In deze bijdrage bespreekt Ea Visser de beschikkingen inzake Estro en PCM. Daarna gaat zij in op het politieke initiatief dat is genomen inzake de rechten van de OR bij private-equitytransacties en de reactie daarop. Ea bespreekt aan de hand van de Estro-zaak de relatie tussen de belangenafweging van het bestuur en de beweegredenen die moeten worden opgenomen in een adviesaanvraag volgens de Wet op de ondernemingsraden (WOR). Vervolgens gaat zij in op de manier waarop partijen bij een overnamefinanciering de bevindingen uit de Estro-zaak kunnen toepassen in de praktijk.

Articles - Edouard d'Anterroches, Audrey Jarreton and Nicolas Pradel co-authored the SFDR Implementation Guide published on 9 March 2021 by the Association des Banques et Banquiers, Luxembourg (ABBL), the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) and the Association des Companies d’Assurances et de Réassurances (ACA) for the use of their members.

Articles - Stibbe Luxembourg's Funds Partner Edouard d'Anterroches was amongst the few international experts asked by the Banque de Luxembourg Investments to take part in four workshops covering sustainable finance, impact investing and ESG topics. He co-authored the resulting white paper on microfinance which gathers interesting conclusions of the workshops.