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Regulatory Development On 9 December 2025, the CSSF drew attention to the publication by the Commission des normes comptables (CNC - Accounting Standards Commission) to a Q&A of the CNC (“ Q&A CNC 25/036”) interpreting Article 1711-8(3), point (3), of the Law of 10 August 1915 on commercial

On 22 October 2025, the District Court of Luxembourg handed down a jugement sur accord in the criminal case relating to the collapse of KAUPTHING BANK LUXEMBOURG S.A. ("Kaupthing") in October 2008. Under this judgement, each of the defendants was sentenced to a financial penalty of €75,000 in the

On 19 November 2025, in Case T-367/23, Amazon EU v European Commission, the General Court of the European Union (the Court) delivered a seminal judgment on an action for annulment brought against a decision of the European Commission (the Commission) adopted pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of

On 5 December 2025, the ESMA published clarifications addressing key European Long Term Investment Fund (" ELTIF") industry questions submitted to the European Commission (“the Commission”) on the structuring of ELTIFs and their managers. The primary objective was to resolve uncertainties

On 17 December 2025, the Luxembourg Parliament adopted the law of 19 December 2025 establishing a quantitative target for gender balance among directors of listed companies with a view to transposing Directive (EU) 2022/2381 (the " Gender Balance Law"). For those who have been following this

In December 2025, ESMA issued two Q&As ( Q&A 2741 and Q&A 2742 ) offering welcome clarity to issuers grappling with the intricacies of the EU Prospectus Regulation (2017/1129). These clarifications address critical questions about supplement obligations and prospectus exemptions, offering meaningful