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Background On 15 February 2022, the CSSF will start the annual online survey for the year 2021 (the “ Survey”). The Survey remains mostly unchanged compared to the previous year. However, some questions have been removed, added or amended. For ease of reference, the new questions have been

The case that led to the decision rendered by the European Court of Justice (the “ ECJ”) on 25 November 2021 in case C-437/19 concerns a request for exchange of information by the French tax authorities aiming at identifying the shareholders and ultimate beneficial owners of a Luxembourg public

Background Reverse Hybrid Entity Rule introduced in Luxembourg by the law of 20 December 2019 (hereafter the “ ATAD II Law”) implementing Council Directive (EU) 2017/952 of 29 May 2017, regarding hybrid mismatches with third countries (hereafter “ ATAD II Directive”) will apply as of 1 January 2022

The final report on sustainability-related disclosures, including taxonomy-related disclosures (the “ Draft RTS”), were published by the European Supervisory Authorities (the "ESAs") on 22 October 2021. The Draft RTS set out amendments to the set of rules and mandatory templates for financial

PROPOSED EXTENSION As the Covid 19 pandemic situation continues to have an impact on the sound governance of companies and other legal persons, a bill of law has been filed on 24 November 2021 to extend the possibility for companies to hold their general meetings and other necessary meetings without

For more or less ten years, the Luxembourg financial sector has been increasingly looking and using for IT outsourcing solutions essentially due to costs reduction schemes following the latest financial crisis. On 14 October 2021, the Luxembourg financial market authority (the Commission de