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On 3 July 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) published its judgment in Case C-582/23 (Wiszkier) (the Judgment).

On May 28, 2007, the German legislature implemented a law on German real estate investment trusts ("REITs"), effective retroactively to January 1, 2007.

On 15 February 2023, the European Central Bank's (ECB) acting in its role as the head of the Banking Union's Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) published a document setting out...

As set out in an earlier Client Alert, the EU's Listing Act package was formally adopted in October 2024, published in the EU's Official Journal (OJ) on 14 November 2024 and entered into force on 4 December 2024.

On 2 February 2022, the European Securities and Markets Authority published a supervisory briefing regarding its expectations in relation to investment firms use of tied agents within the MiFID II framework.

The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) has identified six main risks for the German financial sector for 2022, which it intends to address as a priority during the current supervisory cycle.

On 17 June 2025, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) released its inaugural report on a coordinated mystery shopping exercise examining the sales process for Insurance-Based Investment Products (IBIPs) across eight EU Member States

On 10 April 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its Final Report and (in Annex II thereto) the Final Draft regulatory technical standards...

Ever since the financial crisis of 2008/2009, lending activities of non-banks – including investment funds – have become more important.

European financial regulation has grown substantially in complexity over the past two decades. Multiple institutions operate at global, European and national levels, each with a distinct mandate, legal basis and range of instruments.

The European Parliament and now also the Council have approved a revision of the EuVECA Regulation. The revised EuVECA Regulation contains some important changes for managers of EuVECA funds.

A European Stock Corporation (“Societas Europaea”, abbreviated “SE”) is a type of corporation which can be established in any European Union member state pursuant to European Law.

On 17 June 2025, the European Commission (the "Commission") published its proposed measures to revive the securitisation framework in the European Union ("EU"), with a view to making it simpler and more fit for purpose.

Five years after the new German Insolvency Code ( Insolvenzordnung) came into Insolvenzordnung force, German insolvency law is of considerable interest to both the national and international business communities.

The three European supervisory authorities, EBA, EIOPA and ESMA (ESAs), published a joint report on February 7, 2022, in response to the European Commission's February 2021 call for views on digital finance.

On 27 June 2025, the EU's new Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the European Central Bank (ECB)...