On March 18, 2026, the European Commission published a legislative proposal to create “EU Inc.,” an optional, digital-first corporate legal form aimed at simplifying cross-border business operations within the EU.…

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Hans Urlus, Maquina Lamé and Rabia Simsek authored this Practice Note that explains the requirements for Dutch entities and trusts to register and maintain information on their Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs) in the Dutch UBO and Trust Registers.
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The EU Listing Act and UK Prospectus Reform are two different legislative reforms with a common goal: making public capital markets in the UK and EU more accessible and attractive for companies of all sizes, including small- and medium-sized enterprises, seeking to raise capital and list on a stock exchange by reducing the costs and…

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 introduction of the AIFMD a decade ago imposed what were, at the time, substantial changes to the regulation of alternative funds, the AIFMD II text…

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 Exemption Regulation (SBER), together referred to as the Horizontal Block Exemption Regulations (HBER), and accompanying Horizontal Guidelines (Guidelines). The HBER entered into force on 1…

The Dutch Senate’s act on gender diversity in Dutch company boards (the Act) took effect 1 January 2022. One of the Act’s provisions implements an appointment quota for supervisory boards, or non-executive directors in a one-tier model, of Dutch-listed companies to ensure that men and women each hold at least one-third of the seats on…