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While investors continually demand superior performance, the area of investment management is undergoing an unprecedented number of changes. With Loyens & Loeff as your investment management partner, you can tackle any cross-border legal, tax and regulatory challenge.
We are located in important European real estate investments markets. For the past 15 years, legal guides such as Legal500 and Chambers Europe have continuously assessed Loyens & Loeff as Tier 1 for Investment Funds (next to our Tier 1 ranking for Real Estate and Tax) – which truly makes us the go to-firm for your real estate investments.
Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important factor in the decisions of investors, companies, consumers, shareholders and policy and law makers. The broadly supported awareness of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) objectives is reflected in many international voluntary standards as well as in an increasing number of European regulations.
On 2 July 2025, the European Commission published a recommendation to guide EU Member States in designing tax incentives that support clean industrial investment.
On 23 June 2025, the Council adopted its position on simplifying sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements under the CSRD and CSDDD.
The anti-hybrid mismatch rules of the EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive (ATAD 2) aim to prevent situations of a double deduction and a deduction without a corresponding inclusion of the income at the level of the recipient resulting from a hybrid mismatch. All EU Member States have implemented ATAD2 in their domestic laws as from 1 January 2019 (for Belgium) or as from 1 January 2020 and 1 January 2022 (for a.o. the Netherlands and Luxembourg).
It is noted that EU Member states can introduce rules that go beyond the minimum standards of the ATAD2 directive. An example of this is the introduction of the ATAD2 documentation requirement in the Netherlands. Following the Dutch ATAD2 documentation requirement, all Dutch taxpayers should have documentation available in their administration that shows the (non-)applicability of the ATAD2 rules.
This first circular from the Luxembourg tax authorities provides clarifications on tax status of a hybrid entity, its taxation rules and obligations in Luxembourg.
Luxembourg is the main jurisdiction in Europe for launching credit funds with a European strategy.
Building upon work conducted for several years on how to adapt the international tax rules to an increasingly digitalised economy, the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework proposes a two-pillar overhaul of the existing system as from 2023/2024. While the main policy features are agreed, detailed model rules and draft multilateral conventions are due to be released over 2022.
Tax directors and their teams can already model the impact, prepare for the additional tax compliance burden and assess opportunities for manageable restructurings to mitigate the increased complexity.
On 2 July 2025, the European Commission published a recommendation to guide EU Member States in designing tax incentives that support clean industrial investment.
On 26 June 2025, the United States (U.S.) Treasury announced an agreement with the other G7 countries regarding the application of the OECD Pillar Two rules to U.S.-parented multinational enterprises (U.S. MNEs).
In recent years tax authorities have placed more emphasis on combatting the use of abusive and aggressive tax structures by companies operating across borders, to ensure fair taxation. The EU and OECD have provided tax authorities with various instruments such as the Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive (ATAD) and the Multilateral Instrument. The judgements handed down by the CJEU on the Danish cases have also set an important precedent.
However, since entities with no minimal substance and economic activity are supposedly still used for improper tax purposes, the European Commission recently issued a new proposal (ATAD 3). It is highly recommended that taxpayers already assess the possible impact of the proposal and consider opportunities for strengthening their local footprint and/or restructuring.
On 25 April 2025, the Dutch Supreme Court (Supreme Court) issued two landmark decisions on certain anti-abuse rules relevant for non-Dutch entities holding shares in Dutch taxpayers.
The topic of this Snippet is the proposed EU Transfer Pricing (TP) Directive (the TPD). If adopted, the TPD may impact U.S. multinationals with operations in Europe.
In the Book 3 "Goods" of the Belgian Civil Code the main goal of the legislator was to better structure, modernise and integrate the law on goods into a single code. Moreover, the new law on goods had to be functional, useful and flexible. Time will show whether the new Book 3 meets these goals. It’s looking promising anyhow.
This article, written by Alexander Vandendries and Christophe Laurent, is a contribution to the Larcier book "Revue de planification patrimoniale belge et internationale".
This Real Estate Update focuses on the new Books 1 and 5 of the new Belgian Civil Code, which will both enter into force on 1 January 2023. We selected almost 20 relevant topics where the new legislation could have an important impact on real estate
