Investment Management

Short Reads - Brigade-M3 European Acquisition Corp. is a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) that was incorporated for purposes of effecting a business combination with a company with significant operations in Europe which has positively benefited from a structural shift caused by the COVID-19 pandemic or has been negatively impacted by a temporary dislocation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The SPAC will have 18 months from 14 December 2021 to complete a Business Combination.

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.

Short Reads - Alike other European countries, Luxembourg has adopted, in the context of the Covid-19 state of crisis (18 March – 24 June 2020) (the State of Crisis), a set of rules introducing temporary measures providing for, among others, an extension with respect to deadlines for filing and publication requirements of annual accounts, consolidated accounts and the related reports (the Financial Data) imposed on commercial companies and entities regulated and subject to specific regulatory reporting requirements.

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.

Articles - The two in-depth analyses examine, respectively, the impact of the reform on the governance of financial institutions and on financial transactions, and the new form of limited company ("Société à responsabilité limitée"/"Besloten vennootschap").