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SRZ Attorneys Discuss ESMA Advice on Extension of AIFMD Marketing Passport
August 2015
In a recent article published in The Hedge Fund Journal, SRZ partner Anna Maleva-Otto and former SRZ lawyer Steven Whittaker discuss the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (‘ESMA’) recently published advice to the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on the extension of the marketing passport to non-EU alternative investment managers and alternative investment funds under the EU Alternative Investment Managers Directive (‘AIFMD’). The article also provides details on ESMA’s ongoing country-by-country assessment of the potential extension of the AIFMD marketing passport.
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