PwC Legal Luxembourg today announces that effective 1 July 2025, the firm will be transitioning out of the PwC global Network, as a fully independent law firm in Luxembourg, under a new name: Stellan Partners.
A&O Shearman has issued a reminder for individuals registered with the Luxembourg trade and companies register (LNIN): updating your Luxembourg national identification numbers will remain free of charge only until 31 May 2025.
Luxembourg’s Chamber of Deputies (Parliament) recently passed Bill 8056, allowing lawyers from the United Kingdom to register to practise in the Grand Duchy after Brexit.
Global law firm Hogan Lovells has advised Timberland Investment Resources Europe (TIR), a London-based asset manager investing in forestry and timber, on setting up their third Luxembourg fund, in the form of a reserved alternative investment fund (RAIF). Our assistance included the compliance of the fund with article 9 of SFDR. TIR targets to raise EUR 200 million.
General Members News BRUSSELS, June 27 (Reuters) – Zalando (ZALG.DE), Europe’s biggest online fashion retailer, has made the first legal challenge to new EU content rules, suing the European Commission for putting it in the same category as Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google and Meta Platforms (META.O).
General Members News Luxembourg introduced an exemption regime regarding the holding of shareholders and board members meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic through the law of 23 September 2020 relating to measures on the holding of meetings in companies and other legal entities (the “Law”). The exemption regime took an effective end on 1st January 2023.
PRESS RELEASE Luxembourg, 30 August 2022 BSP with Groupe Bruxelles Lambert on the acquisition of a majority stake in Sanoptis BSP, with a team led by Linda Harroch, Partner and Head of the Private Equity department, and composed of Francesco Del Pesce, Counsel, Grégoire Colson, Associate, and Joyce Soudry, Junior Associate, acted
PRESS RELEASE Luxembourg, 25 July 2022 BSP with Groupe Bruxelles Lambert on the acquisition of a majority stake in Affidea BSP, with a team led by Linda Harroch, Partner and Head of the Private Equity department, and composed of Grégoire Colson, Associate, and Joyce Soudry, Junior Associate, acted as Luxembourg counsel to Groupe Bruxelles
General Members News CSSF Circular 22/811 on UCI Administrators On 16 May 2022, the CSSF issued Circular 22/811 concerning the authorisation and organisation of entities acting as UCI administrators (“Circular”), which rewrites and repeals Chapter D of IML Circular 91/75 setting out the rules concerning the central administration of Luxembourg undertakings for collective investment (“UCIs”). As announced
General Members News IT and cloud outsourcing: new notification regime On 14 October 2021, the CSSF published its new CSSF Circular 21/785 with regard to replacing the prior authorisation obligation with a prior notification obligation in the case of material IT outsourcing (the “Circular”), which results in a simplification of the current regulatory requirements. The Circular became effective from 15 October
General Members News As of today, small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) can apply for financing under a €20 million grant scheme to help EU companies to make better use of intellectual property rights. With the support of the Commission and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), the Ideas Powered for Business SME Fund aims to help firms develop their intellectual property (IP)
General Members News October 7, 2019 – Today Dentons US, Bingham Greenebaum and Cohen & Grigsby announce a proposed combination and a new partnership that will enable the firms to build a new national law firm capable of serving clients from coast to coast as well as around the world. This combination represents the first step in forming