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These Invest Europe ESG Reporting Guidelines will ensure that investors, and to a certain extent other stakeholders, are able to understand the GP’s approach to sustainability and, for each relevant fund, the main impacts of its investments on relevant sustainability factors.

Financial Times: "Are investors the mark, or in on it?"

Our quick guide explains listed private capital -- and how it democratises access to interesting investment opportunities by making private capital public.

As the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) screening landscape across Europe is rapidly evolving, Invest Europe has prepared a country-by-country overview to map different existing regimes and keep track of latest developments with a view to helping members assess how FDI screenings may impact their transactions.

This consultation was designed to allow the industry to give input to ESMA on the information that will have to be notified to national competent authorities when marketing cross-border, as a result of the new “CBDF” requirements. This response aimed at giving ESMA relevant details on various technical concerns our members have, among other things, with the notification templates.

The report highlights the scale and growth of the private equity and venture capital (PE/VC) industry in Europe over the past decade, as well as the capital available for new investments.

Ensuring that European tax rules are fit for purpose in light of an increasingly globalised economy is key for venture capital and private equity funds, who have highly varied investment value-chains and diverse investments in companies in all parts of Europe and beyond.

In this consultation response, Invest Europe expresses its concerns about some of the approaches suggested by the Platform for Sustainable Finance in its Draft Report on Minimum Safeguards under the Taxonomy Regulation. Among others, we have stressed the importance of considering not only the need for proportionality, but also the significant impact that PE/VC investments have proven to create.

In this response to the European Commission consultation on its DEBRA proposal, Invest Europe commends the efforts made by the Commission in getting the balance right, but notes that further finetuning is needed, particularly of the articles on the interest limitation rules. It should also be explored further whether the suggested interest rate limitations aren't set to be skewed in a pro-cyclical way, ahead of years when equity investments will be direly needed.

A compelling snapshot of European private equity activity and investment records in the last decade.

This Guide covers the main provisions of the law and the latest guidance from the European Commission.

Harvard business review: PE should play a leading role in promoting sustainability and responsible business practices.

The research shows that European private capital continued to strongly outperform listed equity benchmarks, delivering superior performance to long-term investors to support pensions and savings as markets rebounded from the effects of COVID-19.

In this response Invest Europe commented on the negative impact existing withholding tax refund procedures can have the cross-border investment in the EU securities market and described which EU actions could make these procedures more efficient.