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Invest Europe warmly thanks MEP Hadjipantela for an engaging discussion on his draft report addressing the role of simple tax rules and tax fragmentation in strengthening European competitiveness.

In its response, Invest Europe highlighted key barriers currently limiting PE and VC engagement in defence such regulatory fragmentation, uncertainty around exit pathways, the lack of common definitions and ESG alignment for defence investments, and an underdeveloped public private financing infrastructure to de-risk and scale capital deployment.

Invest Europe’s response to the European Commission’s initiative to strengthen the biotech and life sciences ecosystem outlines key priorities in addressing regulatory barriers in medtech, unlocking early-stage investment, aligning public and private capital, and reducing fragmentation across EU markets, while broadening access to capital from all sources.

Recent geopolitical and policy developments – both within and beyond the EU – are influencing the sustainability conversation.

Invest Europe would welcome the opportunity to highlight some key points on the operation of the 'investment fund' exemption (which limits the FSR reporting obligations to the funds involved in the transaction).

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.