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This Invest Europe webinar was dedicated to human rights issues and practices from a private equity and venture capital perspective.

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 .

A summary document of Invest Europe 2022 highlights and achievements across Public Affairs, Industry Data & Research, Communication, Member Events & Training, Industry Standards, Governance & Finance.

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.

Why we need to mobilize private growth capital and how we can do it.

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.

An outlook on the different climate innovations European firms are currently using, their motivations and challenges, and their views on current regulatory frameworks.

The importance of venture capital in the EU’s life science industry.

Invest Europe replied to the BEFIT public consultation. In this document Invest Europe supports the main objectives of BEFIT as set out in the Call for Evidence, but in addition recognises the need for further clarifications due to the high-level description of the BEFIT rules.

Altogether 33 Finnish general partners of venture capital and private equity funds responded to the questionnaire. This represents some 90% of the players, almost the entire market.