In our recent alert Loan Origination Under AIFMD2: A Guide, on loan origination under the revised Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD2), we noted that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)...more
9/20/2024
/ Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) ,
Asset Management ,
Compliance ,
EU ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
Investment Funds ,
Liquidity ,
Liquidity Management ,
Liquidity Risk Management Rule ,
Loan Origination Funds ,
Open-Ended Fund Companies (OFCs) ,
Risk Management ,
UCITS
In our previous alert AIFMD II (Near) Final Text Agreed: What’s New? and in our recent update in our Horizon Scan, we noted that the Council of the European Union (EU) had published the final compromise amending text setting...more
2/14/2024
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Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) ,
Amended Regulation ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
Member State ,
Portfolio Managers ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
UCITS
Q: What is DORA?
“DORA” stands for the Digital Operational Resilience Act, an EU regulation that creates a new framework for the EU financial sector with regard to information and communications technology (ICT)....more
1/29/2024
/ AIFM ,
Compliance ,
Cryptoassets ,
Cybersecurity ,
Electronic Communications ,
EU ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Fund Managers ,
Information Technology ,
Investment Firms ,
Investment Funds ,
Luxembourg ,
Regulation Technical Standards (RTS) ,
UCITS
The European Commission published its Retail Investment Package (the Package) in May 2023. The Package aims to streamline and modernise investor protection rules in EU laws, including the Alternative Investment Fund Managers...more
6/27/2023
/ Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) ,
ELTIF ,
EU ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
MiFID ,
Packaged Retail And Insurance-Based Investment Products (PRIIPS) ,
Private Investment Funds ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Regulation Technical Standards (RTS) ,
Retail Investors ,
UCITS
The purpose of this Insights post is to consider some practical issues for alternative investment fund managers (“AIFMs”) when undertaking pre-marketing/marketing activities in the European Union following the...more
Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 of 27 November, 2019 on sustainability-related disclosures in the financial services sector, as amended by Regulation (EU) of 18 June, 2020 on the establishment of a framework to facilitate...more
12/18/2020
/ Asset Management ,
CSSF ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
EU ,
EuSEF ,
EuVECA ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Fund Managers ,
Investment Adviser ,
Investment Firms ,
Investment Funds ,
Investment Management ,
Luxembourg ,
MiFID ,
National Private Placement Regimes (NPPR) ,
Portfolio Managers ,
Risk Assessment ,
RTS ,
SFDR ,
Sustainable Finance ,
Transparency ,
UCITS ,
Websites
Under emergency legislation applicable with immediate effect for three months with a view to contain the rapid spread of COVID-19 in Luxembourg, Luxembourg enacted on 20 March 2020 temporary measures applicable to all...more
3/23/2020
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Board Meetings ,
Bondholders ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
CSSF ,
Emergency Response ,
Investment Funds ,
Luxembourg ,
Shareholders ,
SIFs ,
UCITS
The UK’s exit from the European Union is now postponed to 31 January 2020, and whilst there is still significant uncertainty regarding the occurrence of Brexit on that date, the CSSF set out a new deadline on 6 November 2019...more