In November 2023, after several years of negotiation, the Council of the European Union published the detailed compromise text for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) II.

While the

Continue Reading AIFMD II: New Regulation of Debt Funds and Other Key Changes

In our earlier GT Alert, we highlighted that on 1 June 2023 the European Commission adopted the revised Research and Development Block Exemption Regulation (R&D BER) and Specialization Block

Continue Reading EU’s New HBER and Horizontal Guidelines: Main Changes

Companies often point out that there is a tension between sustainability and antitrust/competition. They argue that European Union (EU) – and EU Member States’ national – competition rules

Continue Reading European Commission guidance for EU competition-compliant possibilities for cooperation between competitors in realizing sustainability objectives