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The European Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directivea non-EU fund manager’s perspective

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • May 17 2013

The European Member States must implement the Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers (the "AIFMD"), which came into force on July 21

The FSA and ESMA get technical on prospectuses

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • March 20 2013

The Prospectus Directive (the "PD")1 and the Prospectus Directive Regulation (the "PD Regulation")2 were recently amended, in each case with effect

A European financial transaction tax

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • March 15 2013

In September 2011, the European Commission initially proposed that a financial transaction tax ("FTT") be implemented by all 27 EU Member States

EU Regulation on Short Selling: impact on U.S. issuers of structured notes

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • November 13 2012

On November 1, 2012, the regulation (the “Regulation”) of the European Parliament and Council of the European Union on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps became effective

Worth the wait? Draft PRIPs legislation finally published

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • July 20 2012

More than five years after the Economic and Financial Affairs Council of the EU (“ECOFIN”) asked the EU Commission (the “Commission”) to examine the coherence of EU law relating to different types of investment products, the Commission published its draft regulation (the “Regulation”) relating to “packaged retail investment products” or “PRIPs” on 3 July

A Euro break-up: impact on financial documentation

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 19 2012

On 1 January 2012, many of us brought in the New Year with a celebratory glass of champagne, just as the Europeans did 10 years ago when their drinks were paid for in shiny new Euros

ESMA consultation on further prospectus directive technical advice

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
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  • European Union
  • -
  • December 28 2011

Fresh from delivering its final technical advice to the European Commission on final terms and summaries in the context of the Prospectus Directive Amending Directive (201073EU), the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has now turned its focus towards some of the remaining topics on which it has been mandated by the Commission to provide technical advice

Focus on ETFsETNs

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • November 8 2011

Since our alert in June 2011 concerning the regulatory scrutiny focused on ETFs, the focus has only intensified

Higher, wider, deeper: EU Commission publishes MiFID II and MiFIR proposals

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • October 31 2011

On 20 October 2011, the EU Commission (the “Commission”) published its long awaited legislative proposals for the recasting of the Markets and Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID”

ESMA final report on summaries and final terms under the Prospectus Directive

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • October 20 2011

As we reported in our earlier alert, the European Securities and Markets Authority was required to deliver, by 30 September 2011, its final technical advice to the European Commission in relation to possible delegated acts under the amended Prospectus Directive

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