Funds Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Update (Q2) April - June 2019

Areas covered in this quarterly update include;

1. Undertakings in Collective Investments and Transferable Securities (“UCITS”)

2. Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive (“AIFMD”)

3. Proposed Regulation and Directive on cross-border distribution of collective investment funds

4. Packaged Retail Insurance-based Investment Products (“PRIIPs”)

5. European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (“EMIR”)

6. Securitisation Regulation

7. European Venture Capital Funds (“EuVECA”) Regulation and European Social Entrepreneurship Funds (“EuSEF”) Regulation

8. The Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (“SFTR”)

9. Benchmarks Regulation

10. Global Legal Entity Identifier System (“GLEIS”)

11. Shareholder’s Rights Directive (“SRD II”)

12. European Fund and Asset Management Association (“EFAMA”)

13. European Commission

14. European Parliament

15. ESMA, EBA and ESAs

16. Market Abuse Regulation (“MAR”)

17. Transparency Directive

18. Prospectus Regulation

19. Central Bank of Ireland

20. Euronext (formerly the Irish Stock Exchange (“ISE”))

21. Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”) / Counter-Terrorist Financing (“CTF”)

22. Anti-Corruption Legislation & Law Reform

23. Data Protection / General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) / Cyber Security

24. The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (“ISDA”)

25. Brexit

26. Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicle (“ICAV”)

27. Sustainable Finance

28. Irish Property Funds

29. Irish Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2019

To download our Funds Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Update for the period April to June 2019 click on the Download PDF link above.

If you have any questions in relation to the content please do not hesitate to contact your usual contact in Dillon Eustace.