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We detail in this letter to the European Commission the concerns we have with the exclusion of private-equity and venture capital-backed businesses from the SME category, and subsequently of the ability to receive funding under the national Covid-19 support programmes, on the basis that they are deemed linked to other portfolio companies owned by the fund.

In this letter, we stress that the "undertakings in difficulty" (UIDs) definition in the Global Block Exemption Regulation (GBER) is wrongfully categorizing as in difficulty performing private equity-backed businesses that may as a result get excluded for liquidity support granted to businesses in the context of the Covid-19 crisis.

This guide, covering 19 different jurisdictions, is designed to provide direct insights to Invest Europe members and their portfolio companies on the different support programs available across Europe for businesses in need of liquidity.

Invest Europe joined a wide group of financial industry associations to request a deferral of the DAC 6 application deadline.

European Commission and the EIB have pledged dozens of billions of euros to help Member States and EU financial institutions provide the necessary liquidity to EU businesses while the ECB and the Eurogroup have taken important decisions to maintain the stability of the eurozone.

This letter, shared with Executive Vice-President Vestager and Commissioner Breton, stresses the industry’s concerns about state aid eligibility in some core markets, in particular trying to ensure that industry-backed SMEs are not excluded from any measures that are being put in place by national governments

Invest Europe has written to the European Commission to request a deferral of the DAC 6 application deadline.

This letter, addressed to ESMA and to DG FISMA (European Commission), asks for supervisory flexibility and a deferral of the AIFMD regulatory reporting deadlines, particularly in light issues on valuations.

With this letter Invest Europe calls the European Commission Executive Vice-President to take actions to protect all businesses, in particular start-ups, from the impact of the coronavirus crisis. The same letter was sent to Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager and Commissioners Paolo Gentilioni & Thierry Breton.

With this letter Invest Europe calls four European Commissioners to take actions to protect all businesses, in particular start-ups, from the impact of the coronavirus crisis.

In this response we argue for a more appropriate interpretation of the risk of long-term equity investments, taking into their specificities and the role fund diversification plays in limiting the exposure of the insurers to the funds' underlying investments.

In this response we reiterated our general concerns with the scope of the Key Information Document Regulation (e.g. inclusion of sophisticated investors) and described the specificities of private equity (in particular on cost disclosure)

In this response, we detailed why the current treatment of "investments in private equity" and "investments in venture capital firms" as high risk exposures is inappropriate and how the future banking framework could better take into account the specificities of investments in unlisted equity funds.

Invest Europe, on behalf of the PAE and in conjunction with a global group of PE/VC associations, has responded to the OECD's consultation on the Global Anti-Base Erosion Proposal (“GloBE”) (Pillar Two).

In this response, we expressed concerns with the imposition, as part of the Market Abuse Regulation review, of overly cumbersome administrative and reporting requirements on infrequent recipients of market soundings such as private equity firms.