7/9/2024 10:35:35 AM The Future is Suite: The “Hotelisation” of Real Estate By William Kellett Eleanor Turner Lydia Kent-Smith As keen observers of the real estate market, a key theme that we have seen emerging in the post-pandemic landscape is the “hotelisation”...
5/2/2024 10:46:17 AM High Yield and Leveraged Finance in Europe By Haden Henderson Simone Bono Michael Josenhans Marvin Knapp Lindsay Hingston +2 more... Show less On 25 April, Freshfields hosted AFME’s European High Yield and Leveraged Finance Frankfurt Seminar in our Frankfurt office. Lead by...
11/23/2023 10:23:59 AM Capital Solutions for Real Estate By Tom Wallis Roger Schofield Real Estate sponsors looking to refinance or exit their investments are doing so in a significantly changed environment from when their...
10/24/2023 11:39:20 AM The changing demand for real estate – embracing demographic shifts By Victoria Hills Lydia Kent-Smith Our global population is ageing. Fertility rates are declining. Society is adapting to new ways of living and working. Changing...
9/28/2023 11:00:07 AM New tax ruling brings positive news for the taxation of carried interest in Spain By Javier Sánchez Ballesteros Since our previous post Spanish taxation of carried interest: what’s new for the private equity sector?, the Spanish General Tax...
9/25/2023 9:48:59 AM Times they are a-changin’ – how cities are evolving and the role of the hospitality industry By Victoria Hills Lydia Kent-Smith We are living through an extraordinary period. With significant geopolitical, social and climate changes. As actors in the real estate...
8/21/2023 11:41:33 AM Private M&A: Equity consideration transactions - Enhanced due diligence, more extensive warranties and alternative risk allocation By Gaia Pattyn The past eighteen months have seen a steady increase in sellers accepting consideration other than cash in private M&A transactions....
7/20/2023 10:08:08 AM What you need to know now about the impact of the OECD's global minimum tax on M&A transactions By Peter Clements Bob van Kasteren Katharina Kubik Joe Soltis Alison Dickie +2 more... Show less Following international agreement on the key components of the OECD’s Pillar 2 proposal to introduce a global minimum tax, attention has...
4/24/2023 1:55:14 PM EU merger control simplification package: cutting or increasing the red tape? By Felix Roscam Abbing Jan Jeram Paul van den Berg Joanna Goyder +1 more... Show less In brief On 20 April, the European Commission (Commission) adopted a merger control simplification package including a revised...
1/18/2023 10:27:19 AM What rising inflation means for commercial rent indexation in the Netherlands By Emelde Rubaij Bouman Following the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and subsequent rising energy costs, soaring inflation is the latest thing to...
12/5/2022 5:20:02 PM Spanish taxation of carried interest: what’s next for the private equity sector? By Javier Sánchez Ballesteros Private equity managers generally co-invest in the managed fund alongside fund investors. They also hold carried interest, which gives...
10/12/2022 10:23:38 AM More Red Tape for Bank M&A in Europe - ECB publish draft guide on qualifying holding procedures By Alexander Glos Daniel Klingenbrunn Nicholas Lütgerath Jan Struckmann +1 more... Show less Acquiring 10% or more in European credit institutions requires an in-depth ex-ante assessment by national competent authorities (NCA) and...