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The presentation shows Brexit had a limited impact on private equity and venture capital activity.

This new Invest Europe members-only Guide aims to clear up some of the grey areas around the day-to-day application of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), as well as its interplay with the EU Taxonomy. It has been developed by industry experts, for practitioners, outlining current best practices and answering common questions.

This fifth Invest Europe webinar on the EU SFDR and its interaction with the Taxonomy Regulation focussed on the latest EU regulatory developments and recent market practices on how the rules are being applied on a day-to-day basis.

Invest Europe's feedback to the European Commission on the interim evaluation of the InvestEU programme. The feedback includes points on the operating conditions of the European Investment Fund, the type of aid that the Commission deploys to support European companies, as well as Invest Europe's key policy priorities.

In this letter to the European Commission, we reiterate our concerns about the required website disclosures under Article 10 SFDR, in particular in relation to confidentiality and international securities laws.

Invest Europe has written to EU leaders and relevant finance ministers on the EU response to the United States' Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ahead of the European Council meeting on 23/24 March. The EU response to the IRA should be considered as an opportunity to improve the EU investment landscape in order to allow European companies to thrive globally, without having to leave the bloc.

In this position paper Invest Europe welcomes the European Commission’s proposal to further harmonise the insolvency law and procedure across the Member States. We fully support the principles behind the proposal, in particular the intention of shorter, more efficient and less court-led insolvency process.

In this position paper Invest Europe welcomes the European Commission’s proposal to further harmonise the insolvency law across the Member States and fully supports the principles behind the proposal, in particular the intention of shorter, more efficient and less court-led insolvency process.

The Foreign Subsidies Regulation has been brought in to protect the EU from distortive foreign subsidies. There is serious concern within the private equity and venture capital industry that this regime will lead to a disproportionate and burdensome framework for our sector. This regime must do what it intends to do in targeting the handful of key problematic cases without creating an undue administrative overload for all market participants .

This response, provided on behalf of Invest Europe listed members, highlights various problems with the PRIIPs Regulation, including issues with the highly prescriptive format requirements in disclosure, in light of the potential review of PRIIPs in the UK.

In this letter Invest Europe teams up with other trade associations to call on EU Institutions to extend the temporary exemption under EMIR for equity options. The request was made to ensure there are no adverse effects from equity options becoming temporarily subject to bilateral margining requirements.

The new EU Regulation on ESG disclosures (SFDR) has been applicable since March 2021.

In this response, we express serious concerns about the introduction of the proposed guidelines on funds’ names, which we believe amounts to rulemaking which is not within the powers of ESMA. Should ESMA nonetheless introduce guidelines, we urge ESMA inter alia to include more elaborate grandfathering and transitional relief and to delete the suggested minimum safeguards.

Get fully up-to-date on the new European Long-Term Investment Fund (ELTIF) framework by listening to this webinar.