Alternative Investment Funds in Europe: Law and Practice (Oxford EU Financial Regulation) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199657726 ISBN 13: 9780199657728

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2014

Synopsis

The book provides a full and practical review of the impact of the highly controversial European Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers, which was adopted after much debate in October 2010 (AIFMD).

The AIFMD is intended to be a regulatory response to systematic risks that came to light in the financial crisis and will have a broad and material impact on the manner in which investment managers may operate and offer non-retail funds (including hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate funds and infrastructure funds), which were previously largely unregulated. The AIFMD not only regulates fund managers based in the EU, but also seeks to regulate non-EU managers who seek to offer non-EU funds to EU investors. Accordingly, the AIFMD will impact all fund offerings to professional investors based in the EU, potentially severely limiting the range of investments available to EU pension funds, insurance companies and other institutional investors.

The book begins with a detailed review of the AIFMD itself, including the 'Level 2' rules. The bulk of the book consists of chapters that analyse and explain the national implementation legislation of the EU Member States. Through this structure, the work provides the reader with fast-track access to the regulation at European and national level of non-retail EU and non-EU funds and fund managers, which are caught by the AIFMD.

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Review:

'...offers an excellent analysis of the rules of the AIFMD (including delegated legislation), always pointing out practical consequences and uncertainties. Nothing of practical relevance is left out In conclusion, this book fulfills the promise: it provides the reader with fast-track access to the regulation at European and national level of nine EU Member States. It is more than worthwhile reading for anybody wishing to take a look at the implementation in other member states or to follow the dynamic development of fund management law and regulation in Europe.' (Markus Heidinger, J.I.B.L.R.)

About the Author:

Lodewijk van Setten is Managing Director and International Counsel at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, and Visiting Professor at King's College, London. He wrote The Law of Institutional Investment Management (OUP, 2009) and is well-known in the UK which is the principal European market for alternative funds. Danny Busch is Professor of Financial Law at the Institute for Financial Law, University of Nijmegen and practised with De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek (Amsterdam). He is a member of the Consultative Working Group (CWG) which advises the Investor Protection and Intermediaries Standing Committee (IPISC) on aspects of the current review of the European Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID).

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0199657726
• ISBN 13: 9780199657728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 554
• Editor: Van Setten Lodewijk, Busch Danny