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Invest Europe's feedback to the European Commission on the proposed amendments to the Taxonomy Delegated Acts, as part of the broader Omnibus simplification package on sustainability, highlighting areas where further clarification and refinement would improve the effectiveness and practicality of the proposed changes.

AIFMD Essentials is a guide allowing every private equity and venture capital manager to get an overview of all the regulatory and legal provisions defined by the Alternative Investment Fund Managers’ Directive.

The European Savings & Investments Union offers a real opportunity to adapt once and for all the European regulatory framework for it to mobilize our own wealth to boost our own competitiveness. This position paper details the actions needed from a private equity perspective.

In this paper, Invest Europe highlights the private equity and venture capital industry’s support for the European Commission’s investment Omnibus proposal, focusing on expanding access to public funding for high-growth companies, reducing administrative burdens to enhance investment efficiency, and supporting a unified EU framework - a '28th regime' - to boost cross-border investment and innovation.

The EU regulatory landscape impacts on how venture capital firms can operate in their home countries and across the EU.

To address regulatory uncertainty in the transition period following the publication of the Omnibus Package on Sustainability, in this letter to the European Commission, we suggest the adoption of formal forbearance measures.

During this webinar on the EU’s new Omnibus Package on Sustainability and its impact on the PE/VC industry, our expert speakers broke down the proposals, analysing key regulatory changes to the CSRD, CSDDD, and Taxonomy.

In this response, Invest Europe highlights the importance of unlocking greater EU and foreign institutional investment into innovative companies, alongside sophisticated and retail capital, while also emphasising the need to introduce a tailored EU long-term savings product and/or label, revise the SME definition, and establish an ambitious 28th regime to strengthen Europe’s innovation and growth potential.

In this response Invest Europe describes to the Financial Stability Board the specificities of the private equity ecosystem when it comes to leverage and calls for an approach that takes into consideration these specificities

In this letter to the European Commission we highlight the private equity and venture capital industry's suggestions surrounding the upcoming Omnibus Sustainability Package including the CSRD, CSDDD, and the Taxonomy.

This response asks IOSCO to carefully draft its Recommendations to acknowledge very specific types of open-ended structures, known as “semi-liquid” funds.

Representatives of the EU and UK-based financial services industries met on 11 February 2025 in Brussels to discuss their respective priorities and shared challenges on the eve of the latest EU-UK Financial Regulatory Forum meeting and agreed on the following statement.

As a founding member and long-standing supporter of the IPEV Valuation Guidelines, Invest Europe welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the 2025 review. After extensive consultation with our Professional Standards Committee and its members, we are pleased to provide our feedback.

In this letter to the European Commission, we outline our perspectives on the Platform on Sustainable Finance’s paper regarding product categorisation under SFDR (2.0).

Foreign capital plays a vital role in financing EU companies. Today, more foreign capital flows to EU venture funds than EU capital flows to non-EU funds. This demonstrates both the value of European businesses and a gap in domestic capital. Around 40% of capital in private markets originates outside the EU.

Foreign investors should not be discouraged from committing capital to European businesses through PE/VC funds. Current FDI regimes, designed to prevent foreign control of strategic assets, are less applicable to PE/VC structures. Investors in such funds do not exercise control over target companies; instead, they invest in the fund manager’s capacity to identify and support businesses.