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The perfect place for any legal or tax professional to keep abreast of everything that’s happening on the Luxembourg legal scene

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03/06/26
03/06/26
Supplementary Pension: A Strategic Issue for Self-Employed Lawyers

In Luxembourg, lawyers practising independently are subject to a statutory pension scheme whose benefits are, by nature, less protective than those applicable to salaried employees…

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02/06/26
02/06/26
Index adjusted on 1 June 2026

From 1 June 2026 the Luxembourg salary index is automatically raised from 968.04 to 992.24, triggering a mandatory 2.5% increase of gross salaries paid under employment contracts s…

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01/06/26
01/06/26
Dentons Luxembourg invests in its talent and strengthens its banking, finance and corporate law…

Dentons Luxembourg announces the promotion of Olivier Lesage to Partner and David Paiva to Managing Counsel, marking a new milestone in the international law firm’s development i…

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16/06/26
Restrictive and post-contractual clauses under Luxembourg La…

Restrictive and post-contractual clauses are common features of employment …

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10/06/26
Luxembourg Pillar Two FAQ updated: LTA provides further guid…

On 4 June 2026, the Luxembourg direct tax authorities ("LTA") updated their…

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Each day we publish several articles written by legal and tax specialists from law firms, notaries offices, the legal departments from payroll agencies and tax consultants.

It is the perfect way for lawyers at the Bar, in-house counsel, barristers, solicitors, notaries, bailiffs, paralegals and any other legal professional with an interest in Luxembourg and European law to keep informed of new legislative initiatives, case law, legal doctrine and all other legal developments on the Belgian legal scene!

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15/02/18
Cryptocurrencies: ESMA, EBA and EIOPA alert consumers on risks of investing in cryptocurrencies

By definition, a cryptocurrency or virtual currency (VC) is a digital or virtual representation of value using cryptography to secure its transactions…

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14/02/18
Bail commercial: La nouvelle loi entrera en vigueur le 1er mars 2018

La nouvelle loi sur le bail commercial (ci-après, la « Nouvelle Loi »), issue du vote du projet n°6864 par la Chambre des Députés le 17 janvier dernie…

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13/02/18
Beneficial Ownership Registers

The Luxembourg Parliament published two new draft laws (No. 7216 and No. 7217) on December 6th 2017, in order to implement provisions of Directiv…

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13/02/18
La refonte de la législation nationale en matière de marchés publics

Le 8 février 2018, la Chambre des Députés a voté, à l’unanimité, le projet de loi n°6982 sur les marchés publics, qui transpose deux directives europé…

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13/02/18
CSSF on-site inspections

Grand-Ducal Regulation of December 21 2017 relating to fees to be levied by the CSSF Grand-Ducal Regulation of December 21 2017 (the Regulation)…

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12/02/18
New law on commercial leases: Overview of the key changes

A new law on commercial lease agreements (the “Law”) was adopted on 17 January 2018 by the Chamber of Deputies. The Law takes effect on 1 March 2018 a…

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09/02/18
New law on public procurement: towards greater efficiency?

With a delay of almost 22 months, the Chamber of Deputies has just transposed Directives 2014/24/EU and 2014/25/EU into national law by adopting on 8 …

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09/02/18
EU Parent Subsidiary Directive and Anti-Abuse Provisions | Ruling of the ECJ

On December 20th 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) rendered its judgment in the joined cases of Deister Hol…

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06/02/18
The law on commercial lease adopted

The law on commercial lease (the “Law”) has been adopted on Wednesday, January 17, 2018 by the Chamber of Deputies and will come into force after its …

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06/02/18
Listing without trading – The Luxembourg Stock Exchange’s Securities Official List

The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) has recently launched its Securities Official List (SOL), a dedicated section of the LuxSE’s official list. It e…

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06/02/18
Drafting limited partnership agreements under Luxembourg law

As international clients from common law jurisdictions expand their businesses in a civil law jurisdiction such as Luxembourg, the question of the enf…

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02/02/18
New bills of law in relation to the creation of Luxembourg registers of beneficial owners and fiduciary arrang…

Two bills of law were filed on 6 December 2017 by the Luxembourg Ministry of Justice with a view to transposing articles 30 and 31 of the Directive (E…

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02/02/18
EU Commission warns stakeholders of customs and indirect tax impact of Brexit

On 30 January 2018, the EU Commission issued a notice regarding the impact of Brexit in the field of customs and indirect taxation. In its …

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01/02/18
Data Protection and Privacy Update – January 2018

This month brought the following interesting data protection developments: Update home market: The Netherlands, Belgium, L…

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29/01/18
Strengthening of municipal autonomy by the Constitutional Court

The Constitutional Court has been seized of the preliminary question as to whether Article 8, paragraph (3) of the Act of 30 June 1976 on th…

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26/01/18
Reform of the employees' extraordinary leave

The law of 15 December 2017, which entered into force on 1 January 2018, has modified extraordinary leave, mostly in favour of employees. The table b…

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26/01/18
Legal Developments on Commercial Leases

This brief report provides a summary of the most important amendments of the legal provisions applicable to commercial leases, introduced in Luxembour…

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26/01/18
An important decision for Uber: the qualification of this startup as a "service in the field of transport"

The Court of Justice ruled that “an intermediation service […], the purpose of which is to connect, by means of a smartphone application and…

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24/01/18
Luxembourg transparency registers: soon a reality!

On 6 December 2017, two Bills of Law which will implement articles 30 and 31 of the Directive (EU) 2015/849 of the European Parliament and the Council…

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24/01/18
Reduced VAT rates: a reform that increases the flexibility of EU Member States

Pursuant to Article 100 of the VAT Directive calling on the European Council to review the scope of reduced VAT rates, the European Commission publish…

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