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AKD: Alternative Investment Funds Industry Quarterly Update Q1 2025

The European AIF market is one of the fastest growing in the financial sector. For this reason, your AKD counsels keep up to date with developments in this dynamic industry. To help financial market participants to stay on top of current trends in the AIF space, the AKD Quarterly Update provides information on selected Luxembourg and Dutch legal, tax and regulatory matters within the AIF industry.
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Loyens & Loeff: Indirect Cost Compensation subsidy for Dutch industry to return

The Netherlands has a subsidy scheme to compensate certain industrial sectors for indirect emission costs relating to the EU Emission Trading System (EU ETS), which subsidy scheme follows directly from EU law. These indirect emission costs are generally passed on in electricity prices and therefore have a bigger effect on energy-intensive industries.

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Loyens & Loeff: Cross-border bribery and corruption: How changes in FCPA enforcement under President Trump could challenge Dutch criminal enforcement actions

Recent discussions suggest that policy changes implemented during President Trump’s administration may significantly impact the enforcement of anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws by U.S. authorities. In this blog, we explore the potential risks these changes may pose for the foregoing may have for corruption investigations involving the Netherlands.

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Taylor Wessing: Work/Life – international employment news update

Our strategic alliance with leading Spanish law firm ECIJA means clients looking to do business in Spain, Portugal and Latin America are supported by one of the best multidisciplinary law firms in the legal sector with a well-established reputation for innovation and success. Furthermore, this alliance enriches our newsletter as ECIJA regularly contributes insightful content, broadening our insight on legal matters.

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Taylor Wessing: Changes to CBAM through Omnibus legislative package

The European Commission has adopted a new package of proposals to simplify EU rules and increase competitiveness which is termed the Omnibus package. This package of measures contains diverse proposals on several areas of law and is intended to lead to far-reaching simplifications in the areas of sustainable finance reporting, sustainability due diligence, EU taxonomy, European investment programmes and Regulation (EU) 2023/956 on the creation of a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). We have already reported on the background and scope of CBAM.

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