Publications

• Preparing for the Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive
  7 July 2026
  John Young
  ,
  Alfie Scott
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• EU Retail Investment Strategy: First Takeaways from the Co-Legislators’ Press Releases
  29 December 2025
  Veronica Aroutiunian
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• Sustainability Reporting and Due Diligence Requirements After the Omnibus
  19 December 2025
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  Samantha J. Rowe
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Ulysses Smith
  ,
  Alfie Scott
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• Review of Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation—Commission Proposal Published
  21 November 2025
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Ulysses Smith
  ,
  Melia Gbaguidi
  ,
  Maïssane Jama
  ,
  Keith Moshe
  ,
  Alfie Scott
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• ESAs Publish 2025 Report on Disclosure of PAIs under the SFDR
  19 September 2025
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Keith Moshe
  ,
  Alfie Scott
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• German AIFMD II Implementation Back on Track
  29 August 2025
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  Eric Olmesdahl
  ,
  Johanna Waber
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• Overview of the EU’s Simplification Omnibus Package
  28 February 2025
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Ulysses Smith
  ,
  Melia Gbaguidi
  ,
  Sameena Hussain
  ,
  Maïssane Jama
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  Keith Moshe
  ,
  Alfie Scott
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• The EU Taxonomy Regulation: Key Issues and State of Play
  12 February 2025
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Alfie Scott
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• CSDDD for Asset Managers
  6 January 2025
  Samantha J. Rowe
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Ulysses Smith
  ,
  Christina Heil
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  Andrew H.W. Lee
  ,
  Sophie Michalski
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• EU Platform on Sustainable Finance Proposes SFDR Product Categorization Regime
  3 January 2025
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  Alfie Scott
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• ESMA Consults on Requirements for Open-Ended Loan Originating Funds
  20 December 2024
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Christopher Dortschy
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Maïssane Jama
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
  ,
  Keith Moshe
• ESMA Publishes Q&As on Its Fund Naming Guidelines
  16 December 2024
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  Alfie Scott
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
  ,
  Keith Moshe
• Reporting Taxonomy Alignment Under CSRD for Asset Managers
  10 December 2024
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Alfie Scott
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• BaFin Responses to Industry Questions on ESMA’s “Guidelines on ESG or Sustainability-Related Terms in Fund Names”
  5 December 2024
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
  ,
  Keith Moshe
• EU Sustainability Reporting: EU Commission President Foreshadows Omnibus Law
  27 November 2024
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  Alfie Scott
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• ESAs Publish 2024 Report on Disclosure of PAIs Under the SFDR
  18 November 2024
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
  ,
  Keith Moshe
• Update on CSRD Implementation in Luxembourg
  12 November 2024
  Christopher Dortschy
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
  ,
  Keith Moshe
• CSSF Implements ESMA Guidelines on Funds’ Names Using ESG or Sustainability-Related Terms
  31 October 2024
  Christopher Dortschy
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
  ,
  Keith Moshe
• EU Sustainable Finance and Transition Investments
  24 September 2024
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
  ,
  Keith Moshe
• EU Enacts New Regulation on Deforestation-Free Supply Chains
  23 September 2024
  Samantha J. Rowe
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Ulysses Smith
  ,
  Christina Heil
  ,
  Sophie Michalski
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• ESMA Opinion on SFDR
  30 August 2024
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
  ,
  Keith Moshe
• AIFMD II - Loan Origination and Liquidity Management
  6 August 2024
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Christopher Dortschy
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Mathieu Voos
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
  ,
  Keith Moshe
• ESAs Update Consolidated Q&A on SFDR (July 2024)
  2 August 2024
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
  ,
  Keith Moshe
• 2024 Private Equity Midyear Outlook
  August 2024
  Christopher Anthony
  ,
  Katherine Ashton
  ,
  Dominic Blaxill
  ,
  Ezra Borut
  ,
  Geoffrey P. Burgess
  ,
  Andrew J. Ceresney
  ,
  Christopher Dortschy
  ,
  Jane Engelhardt
  ,
  Andrew Ford
  ,
  Mark P. Goodman
  ,
  Jyotin Hamid
  ,
  Morgan J. Hayes
  ,
  Peter J. Irwin
  ,
  Eric T. Juergens
  ,
  Arian M. June
  ,
  Robert B. Kaplan
  ,
  M. Natasha Labovitz
  ,
  Andrew M. Levine
  ,
  Sidney P. Levinson
  ,
  Jonathan F. Lewis
  ,
  Gregory J. Lyons
  ,
  Timothy McIver
  ,
  Frank Mitchell
  ,
  Maura Kathleen Monaghan
  ,
  Edwin Northover
  ,
  Brett M. Novick
  ,
  Sheena Paul
  ,
  Marc Ponchione
  ,
  Ryan T. Rafferty
  ,
  Julie M. Riewe
  ,
  Paul D. Rubin
  ,
  Scott B. Selinger
  ,
  Thomas Smith
  ,
  Kristin A. Snyder
  ,
  Rick Sofield
  ,
  Katherine Durnan Taylor
  ,
  Ramya S. Tiller
  ,
  Jonathan R. Tuttle
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Erica S. Weisgerber
  ,
  Jennifer Wheater
  ,
  Naomi Aoyama
  ,
  Alison E. Buckley-Serfass
  ,
  Brett Adam Bush
  ,
  Jennifer R. Cestaro
  ,
  Robert T. Dura
  ,
  Paul Eastham
  ,
  Stuart Hammer
  ,
  Lauren P. Heller
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  Wen-Wei Lai
  ,
  Melissa Runsten
  ,
  Tricia Bozyk Sherno
  ,
  Jacob W. Stahl
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Ulysses Smith
  ,
  Kayleigh Anderson
  ,
  Hymie A. Anteby
  ,
  Jabari Benjamin
  ,
  Josephine Chen
  ,
  Jordan Corrente Beck
  ,
  Julia Needle
  ,
  Michael C. Godbe
  ,
  Zoe Jacoby
  ,
  Yiran Ji
  ,
  Adriana Kranjac Rielly
  ,
  Paul D. Lowry
  ,
  Kaitlyn McGill
  ,
  Amy Pereira
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
  ,
  Keith Moshe
• ESAs Urge Commission to Introduce Product Classification Regime under SFDR
  8 July 2024
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• European Union Finally Adopts Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
  17 June 2024
  Samantha J. Rowe
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Ulysses Smith
  ,
  Christina Heil
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  Andrew H.W. Lee
  ,
  Sophie Michalski
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• ESMA Publishes Final Guidelines for ESG and Sustainability-Related Fund Names
  16 May 2024
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• Impact of SFDR on U.S. Fund Managers
  8 May 2024
  Kristin A. Snyder
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Ulysses Smith
  ,
  Maïssane Jama
  ,
  Harry Just
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• World-Wide Sustainability Reporting – Current State of Play
  28 February 2024
  Samantha J. Rowe
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Ulysses Smith
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• ESMA Introduces Minimum Thresholds for ESG and Sustainability-related Fund Names
  11 January 2024
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• European Supervisory Authorities Publish Final Report on Revisions to SFDR Level II
  15 December 2023
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• The Extra-Territorial Impact of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive—Broadening the Scope of Sustainability Reporting to World-Wide Groups
  30 November 2023
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Samantha J. Rowe
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• Voluntary Disclosure of PAIs—European Supervisory Authorities Publish Annual Report
  10 October 2023
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• Commission Consults on Changes to the Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation
  22 September 2023
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• CLS Blue Sky Blog: Debevoise Discusses How EU’s Sustainability Reporting Directive Affects Private Equity
  21 September 2023
  CLS Blue Sky Blog
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• CSRD—Impact on Private Equity
  13 September 2023
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• European Sustainability Reporting Standards
  5 July 2023
  Christopher Dortschy
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Mathieu Voos
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• New Era of Retail Investment—European Commission Publishes Its Proposal for a Retail Investment Strategy
  21 June 2023
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Christopher Dortschy
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Mathieu Voos
  ,
  Johanna Waber
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• ESAs Propose Amendments to SFDR Level II
  21 April 2023
  Christopher Dortschy
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Mathieu Voos
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• The EU Commission Finally Provides Answers to Outstanding Key Questions on SFDR Interpretation
  17 April 2023
  Christopher Dortschy
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
  ,
  Mathieu Voos
• Data Collection Exercise by CSSF under SFDR
  5 April 2023
  Christopher Dortschy
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Mathieu Voos
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• SMSG Criticizes ESMA’s Consultation on Guidelines on Fund Names
  28 February 2023
  Christopher Dortschy
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Eric Olmesdahl
  ,
  Lukas Ott
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner
• CSSF Provides Practical Guidance on SFDR
  8 December 2022
  Christopher Dortschy
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  John Young
  ,
  Eric Olmesdahl
  ,
  Lukas Ott
  ,
  Eike Björn Weidner