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Ropes & Gray LLP

European Private Equity Market Recap – H1 2025

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Deal activity: Deal count has picked up through the first half of 2025, up 2% compared to the same period last year but still down 7% from H2 2024. With geopolitical tensions, investors and analysts alike are forecasting...more

Goodwin

Carried Interest 2.0: Luxembourg Modernises Its Tax Treatment for Fund Managers

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On 24 July 2025, a draft bill (the Bill) proposing significant amendments to the law of 4 December 1967 on income tax and the law of 12 July 2013 on alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) was submitted to the Luxembourg...more

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Energy Transition: Navigating Europe's Short-Term Volatility and Long-Term Gains

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It might appear as though investors are struggling to see how to make the energy transition profitable, but European investor appetite hasn’t waned for the right transaction. Below we consider some topical issues and risk...more

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AIFMD II Leverage Limits and Single Borrower Exposure Restriction

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AIFMD II introduces substantial changes to the EU-wide regulatory framework for alternative investment fund managers (“AIFMs”) that was established under AIFMD. The changes cover a wide range of areas but will have a...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Capital Call Securitisation, March 2025 - Subscription Finance Facilities – the Allure to Securitise: A European Perspective

Securitisation of subscription finance facilities is en vogue in fund finance. We have written previously on this topic, offering a primer on capital call securitisations and a Q&A regarding a first publicly rated cash...more

King & Spalding

Open End Credit Funds – ESMA Is Looking for Answers

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The ESMA Consultation Paper on draft regulatory technical standards on open-ended loan-originating AIFs (OE LO AIFs) under the AIFMD, published on the 12 December 2024, aims to set out the requirements which OE LO AIFs must...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Getting All Your ‘Lux’ in a Row – a Lender Checklist!

Every deal has its quirks but, as anyone who has done a deal with a Lux entity will know, the EU brings its own set of regulatory considerations to the table (primarily AIFMD). In many cases when compared with parallel...more

Walkers

A Guide to Guernsey Investment Funds

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Guernsey has long been one of the world's premier jurisdictions for investment funds - There are a number of advantages for using Guernsey as a jurisdiction, including the wide variety of company and limited partnership...more

Morgan Lewis

Changes to the VAT Exemption for the Management of Alternative Investment Funds

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The scope of application of the VAT exemption for the management of AIFs has been extended to all AIFs within the meaning of Section 1 (3) KAGB from 2024, meaning that the previously applicable similarity test no longer...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Welcome to 2024: CWT’s European Fund Finance Market Insights January 2024 - Regulators Propose More Granular Disclosure for Loans...

Is one of the greatest mysteries of the universe about to become less mysterious? That’s one possible question after U.S. banking regulators published a request for comment covering a proposed revision to the call report...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

International News: Healthcare - Spotlight on the Industry - May 2021

Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment in the Global Healthcare Industry - Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) seek out investments that are resilient, conducive to their aims and objectives, and reasonably free from market...more

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Proposed changes to the marketing of private equity funds in Europe – good news or bad news?

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The European Commission announced a proposal for a supplementary AIFM Directive on 12 March 2018. A key area of focus for this proposal is around so-called "pre-marketing" of private equity and other alternative investment...more

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AIFMD Update – German Private Placement Rules

Our Investment Funds group has received an update on the changes to the private placement rules for marketing of alternative investment funds (“AIFs”) in Germany following the implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund...more

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