New legislation in Luxembourg concerning the freezing and confiscation of proceeds of crime On the 14th of June, the Luxembourg parliament adopted the draft bill no 7452 aiming to finalise the transposition of directive no 2014/42/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the freez...
L'avocat entrepreneur, entre informatique et protection de la santé mentale Nous en parlons justement dans cette chronique, et nous profitons de cette troisième partie pour attaquer quelques sujets intéressants, tels que l’informatique, la santé mentale et l’utilité du coachi...
New double tax treaty signed between Luxembourg and the United Kingdom *On 7 June 2022, the governments of Luxembourg and the United Kingdom (the “UK”) signed a new double tax treaty (the “New Treaty”) replacing the treaty of 1967 (the “Current Treaty”), as amended.* The...
Comparability of Investment Funds - CJEU decision on case C-545/19 Recently, a decision was issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") setting a precedent for foreign funds investing in Portugal and potentially also in other jurisdictions. The deci...
Revised EU competition rules for distribution agreements entering into force What's new? On 1 June 2022, the new Vertical Block Exemption Regulation ("VBER") as well as the revised Guidelines on vertical restraints ("Guidelines") entered into force. They were adopted following...
New EDPB Guidelines to calculate the amount of GDPR administrative fines **The EDPB adopted new guidelines on the calculation of administrative fines under GDPR. ** On 12 May 2022, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted a first version of Guidelines 04/2022 on t...
EU Commission: draft Directive on tax incentive to reduce debt-equity bias On 11 May 2022, the European Commission (hereafter the “Commission”) published a proposal to create a level playing field for debt and equity from a tax perspective. The Commission proposes to introdu...
CSSF Circular 22/811 - Authorisation and Organisation of Entities Acting as UCI Administrators On 16 May 2022, the Luxembourg financial regulator (the "CSSF") released Circular 22/811 on the authorisation and organisation of entities acting as UCI administrators (the "Circular"). The Circular c...
Quelques réflexions juridiques sur la pratique du « name & shame » La pratique de dénonciation des employeurs par leurs salariés via les réseaux sociaux - nommée outre atlantique « name and shame » - connaît actuellement une popularité croissante. Ceci est même le c...
Licenciement pour motif économique dans le secteur de la Banque *Écrit par Me Julien NEUBAUER, Avocat au Barreau de Paris exerçant de façon permanente au GD de Luxembourg, CASTEGNARO-Ius Laboris Luxembourg* Une décision de la Commission européenne imposant à un gr...
Supervisory monitoring of the qualityof transaction reports under EMIR ***The CSSF has reminded market participants of its expectations with respect to the quality of transaction reports received under Article 9 of EMIR.*** The CSSF recently issued a press release inform...
Quand une demande d’accès à des documentsadministratifs devient-elle abusive ? La Commission d’accès aux documents (la « CAD ») s'est prononcée, il y a peu, une première fois sur la portée de l’article 7 de la loi du 14 septembre 2018 relative à une administration transparente...