On 3 October 2025, bill of law no 8628 implementing Directive (EU) 2024/927…
US fund managers (USFM) often turn to Luxembourg for EU capital raising and…
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The Act of 10 July 2020 ("the Act") transposes into Luxembourg law the last part of the fourth Anti-money Laundering Directive (2015/849) as amended b…
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This is the 11th episode of our COVID-19 webcast series. In this new episode, Mark Shaw gives a quick run-down of where we are in terms of f…
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On 13 July 2020, the law implementing a central register of beneficial owners of Luxembourg fiduciary arrangements (the “Law”) as required under Artic…
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On 6 February 2020, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (“EIOPA”) has published its final guidelines (the “EIOPA Guidelines”) o…
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The legal framework for accessory guarantees (cautionnements) and autonomous guarantees (garanties autonomes) was a source of legal uncertainty given …
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On 1 July 2020, the Luxembourg parliament approved the bill of law n°7216B transposing Article 31 of EU Directive 2015/849 on the prevention of the us…
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On 1 July 2020 the Luxembourg Parliament adopted the much anticipated Bill of Law n°7216B (the “Law”) that repeals the existing law on the information…
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Yesterday (13 July 2020), the law of 10 July 2020 regarding professional payment guarantees was published (the “Law”).
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The law of 10 July 2020 on professional payment guarantees has just been published and will enter into force on 17 July 2020. It provides for the crea…
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On 1 July 2020, the Luxembourg Parliament adopted a new law relating to professional payment guarantees (the “Law”) or garantie professionnelle d…
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On 1st July 2020, the CSSF released its Circular 20/743, thereby partially amending Circular letter 19/716. On the same day, the CSSF also enacte…
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In recent years the European Union has paid increasing attention to sustainability in its policy- making particularly in the financial sector
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On 2 July 2020, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (the “CSSF”) published two important texts for third country firms provi…
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On 1 July 2020, the Luxembourg supervisory authority (the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier - CSSF) issued the circular n°20/743 (the Ci…
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On 1 July 2020, bill of law 7216B setting up a Luxembourg register of fiducies and trusts (the “RFT”), under the supervision of the Adm…
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On 7 May 2020, the Luxembourg Parliament adopted a new law extending certain deadlines during the crisis as provided for in various financial sector l…
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In the absence of an equivalence decision published by ESMA pursuant to MiFID II, the CSSF has the power to adopt its own equivalence decision.
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A new CSSF Circular 20/743 provides more clarification on third country firms providing investment services or performing investment activities.
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Extension of the effects of the Grand Ducal Regulation of 20 March 2020 regarding the means used to hold general meetings and other meetings of compan…
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On 25 June 2020, the law extending crisis measures relating to the holding of meetings of companies and other legal entities after the end of the stat…
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