The Preferred Return Podcast | AIFMD II – Implementation Begins
Investment Management Update - January 2015
AIFMD 2.0 enters into force today –15 April 2024. Member States have 24 months to transpose the provisions into national law, meaning that AIFMD 2.0 will take effect from 16 April 2026....more
On 26 March 2024, the legislative package amending the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive 2011/61/EU (“the “AIFMD”) and (to a certain extent) the UCITS Directive was published in the Official Journal of the...more
I. Background and Scope - On 7 February 2024, the European Union adopted a final text amending the AIFMD and UCITS directives (AIFMD II). This memo considers what are entirely novel requirements attaching to liquidity...more
Der aktuelle Stand im EU-Normgebungsverfahren - Der Europäische Rat hat am 6. November 2023 seine mit Spannung erwartete finale Fassung des Beschlusstextes zur Änderung der AIFMD- und der OGAW-Richtlinie (AIFMD II) in...more
On 6 November 2023, the Council of the European Union published its long anticipated final compromise text ‘as regards delegation arrangements, liquidity risk management, supervisory reporting, provision of depositary and...more
The European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (the “ECON”) published February 2, 2023, proposed text of AIFMD 2. AIFMD 2 will both give certainty and take away flexibility for credit funds, in this...more
On 1 June 2022, the French Presidency published its “final” compromise text in relation to the revision to the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (known as “AIFMD2”). According to this latest AIFMD2...more
ESMA Q& A on Application of the AIFMD - On December 2, 2015 the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published an updated Question and Answer document in relation to the Alternative Investment Fund Managers...more
There has been an increasing focus within Europe on alternatives to bank-based credit. Loan origination funds, which look to source loan assets for their investment portfolio by directly originating loans (rather than...more
Dechert commented on the Central Bank's Discussion Paper on Loan Origination by Investment Funds in our OnPoint “After AIFMD, the Central Bank turns its attention to loan origination funds” (July 2013)....more
Having been one of the first countries to implement the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (“AIFMD”) and, as far as we can gather, having been the first country to approve an Alternative Investment Fund Manager...more