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Reshaping investment funds law

From fund formation to daily fund governance and cross-border registrations, Zeidler covers your legal, regulatory compliance and broader business needs.

More efficiently. Cost effectively. Faster.
To a consistently high quality. Globally.

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Formation of your Investment Funds

Start with Zeidler and you won’t look back. Benefit from our dedicated legal expertise and range of legal efficiencies to best structure and set up your investment funds.

  • discussing investment policy and target markets to determine the right structure for your fund
  • drafting your fund’s constitutional and offering documents
  • negotiating and reviewing
    service provider agreements
  • managing your fund’s creation,
    day-to-day
  • liaising with the regulator
    to obtain fund approval.
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Legal Management of your Investment Funds (Local Counsel Service)

Accept no excuses. Everyday activities should be extraordinarily streamlined. Zeidler adds some zoom to investment funds law,
with nimbler processes.

  • updating your prospectus or PPM, alongside memorandum and articles of association
  • advising on day-to-day legal management of funds
  • reviewing service provider agreements
  • drafting corporate documents
  • organizing AGMs and EGMs
  • advising on eligible assets for UCITS
  • managing regulator relationships, such as with the CBI and CSSF.
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Cross-Border Registrations

We support globally, with the registration of investment funds (UCITS and AIFs) in the EU and EEA proving extremely popular with our clients. We can also help you realize the opportunities for European funds in jurisdictions outside of Europe. Every year we carry out hundreds of fund registrations in 50+ jurisdictions.

  • passporting UCITS funds throughout the EU and EEA
  • passporting EU AIFs with EU AIFMs throughout the EU and EEA
  • registering non-EU AIFs or AIFs with non-EU AIFMs for distribution under the National Private Placement Regimes (NPPRs)
  • registering UCITS funds and AIFs for global distribution in jurisdictions such as Chile, Singapore, South Africa and Switzerland
  • translating fund documents
    into multiple languages for filing with regulators and distributing
    to investors.
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Ongoing Fund Governance

Once the registration of funds is completed in your new jurisdictions, let us take care of the ongoing fund governance.

  • managing regulatory filings
  • maintaining registration status
    by filing updated fund documents with both home-state and host-state regulators
  • reporting on compliance matters
  • monitoring legal amendments
    and regulator updates.
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Global Knowledge Hub

The Global Knowledge Hub is our proprietary web-based knowledge platform. It provides access to practical information on Registration and Compliance matters for UCITS and AIFs in multiple jurisdictions. This information has been created and simplified by our in-house team of lawyers and subject specialists.

  • Web-based platform
  • Provides practical information on Registration and Compliance matters for UCITS and AIF’s
  • Also provides information on marketing, pre-marketing, private placement, reverse solicitation rules for UCITS and AIF’s
  • Created and regularly updated by specialist lawyers and subject experts
  • Over 60 jurisdictions available now for UCITS and AIFs with more to come…
  • Fixed annual fee and flexible subscription plans to suit your needs
  • Includes support for queries via phone, email and chatbot
  • Unlimited number of users
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Cross-Border Legal Advice

We provide legal advice for asset managers to the laws of 50+ jurisdictions and counting. This is a true one-stop-shop for your international legal needs.

  • appointing local agents in distribution jurisdictions when required
  • negotiating and reviewing distribution agreements and
    other service provider agreements
  • giving bespoke legal advice on distribution and marketing activities globally, including fact-sheet and marketing material review projects.
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UCITS KIID and PRIIPs KID – Production, Management, Calculations and Dissemination

We provide an end-to-end solution that combines our legal expertise with our digital platform to generate and manage your UCITS KIID and PRIIPs KIDs. Our service spans all UCITS KIID and PRIIPs KID related matters, including production, management, translation, legal drafting and dissemination.

  • Managing all UCITS KIID and PRIIPs KID related matters – production, management, translation, legal content drafting and dissemination
  • Providing annual as well as ad hoc updating caused by a change to:
    • SRRI/SRI
    • Performance data
    • Ongoing charges
    • Legal changes
    • Client changes
  • Providing all legal content
  • Automated document generation
  • Management of foreign-language translations
  • Dissemination to regulators, distributors and shareholders via API / e-mail / download
  • Active monitoring and maintenance of the compliance status
  • Fully compliant with the latest RTS,
  • Entire process is managed and monitored via Zeidler’s digital platform.
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Counterparty Due Diligence (CDD)

We provide a digital Counterparty Due Diligence solution that is future proof and can be tailored to your needs. We can help with all aspects of the CDD process, including validation.

  • Providing access to our best-practice questionnaire template(s) or creating a bespoke questionnaire that meets your specific needs
  • Managing dissemination and completion of the questionnaire by the counterparty(s)
  • Rating responses provided by counterparties based on your rating priorities and risk appetite
  • Validating responses provided by counterparties via online / telephone / onsite validation
  • Providing advice on how to mitigate identified risks
  • The entire process is managed and monitored via Zeidler Swift.
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements such as CP86, CSSF Circular 18/698
  • Manage your counterparty and delegate network including distributors, platforms, administrators, custodians, research providers, prime brokers, investment managers, investment advisors, IT service providers.
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MiFID Compliance Officer and Trainings

We provide a full MiFID compliance solution that covers everything from providing general and bespoke advice to a fully outsourced compliance solution.

  • Providing an outsourced compliance officer solution
  • Providing general and bespoke MiFID compliance advice
  • Drafting the compliance policies framework
  • Providing general and bespoke MiFID compliance trainings
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Document Dissemination

Accelerate your fund document dissemination with our enhanced digital tool. Our user-friendly solution ensures rigorous compliance oversight with advanced workflows for the quickest process and full audit trail. 

The document dissemination service includes disseminating updated fund documents by email to a list of local agents, distributors, and other parties regardless of the number of recipients on that list or the number of times per year that documents must be disseminated. 

  • Enhanced rules-based dissemination of fund documents  such as EMTs, EPTs, EETs, UCITS KIID, PRIIPs KID, amongst other documents to data vendors, distributors or any other destinations via email, S(FTP), API etc  
  • Full audit trail for complete transparency and control with added compliance oversight from our Regulatory Services Division 
  • Additional support available for bespoke requirements 
  • Full integration with our digital platform and legal, regulatory, and reporting services to ensure a true end-to-end process. 
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Company Secretary Services

Our comprehensive Company Secretary Services handle every aspect our clients and their board members require.

  • organising and preparing fully for board meetings, AGMs and EGMs
  • attending and overseeing meetings
  • preparing and distributing approved minutes and action items to all stakeholders
  • updating the registers and statutory records
  • advising relevant parties
    of key changes in relevant regulatory requirements
  • reviewing and completing
    all necessary forms
  • preparing and maintaining
    compliance calendar
  • maintaining the Company Seal and safekeeping of original documents
  • providing Registered Office
    services at our offices.
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Local Agency Services

We act as German Information Agent, UK Facilities Agent and Irish Facilities Agent for international investment funds.

Anleger aus Deutschland

Für OGAW-Fonds in dieser Gerichtsbarkeit sind wir als Informationsstelle tätig und erfüllen die Anforderungen des Deutschen Investmentgesetzes (GIC).

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UK and Ireland investors

Zeidler is a UK and Irish Facilities Agent. We help our clients with international investment funds to comply with the rules for foreign UCITS of the UK’s financial regulator (FCA) and the Central Bank of Ireland.

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Process Agent
Services

We act as Process Agent  / Receiving Agent on behalf of international parties who enter into transactions in Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom.

Appoint us as your Process Agent and benefit from:

  • Competitive pricing model
  • Fast turnaround of documents and extreme responsiveness
  • Straightforward and simple fee structure
  • Flexible and service-oriented team
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Stock Exchange Listings

We carry out stock exchange listings and stock exchange cross-listings for UCITS (any type including ETFs) and AIFs in the major EU jurisdictions and Switzerland.

  • Preparation of the required application documentation
  • Assistance with finding and negotiating agreements with the required service providers
  • Filing and following through with the registration process
  • Leading the communication with the stock exchange and any service providers
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Notarisation Agent Services

We act as notarisation agents for international parties in connection with share purchase, M&A and other large legal transactions in any city in Germany.

  • Very flexible and ad hoc availability
  • Extreme responsiveness and quick document turnaround
  • more than 9 years of experience in this specific area of work
  • knowledgeable and experienced staff
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EMT / EPT – Production, Validation and Dissemination

Production, Validation and Dissemination of EMTs and EPTs via our digital platform.

  • Production of EMTs and EPTs
  • Validation of EMTs and EPTs
  • Enhanced dissemination of EMTs and EPTs to data vendors, distributors or any other destinations via email, S(FTP), API etc with a full audit trail
  • Assistance with migration to the latest EMT and EPT versions
  • Calculations and ongoing monitoring – SRI, SRRI, Performance scenarios, Transaction costs etc.
  • Additional support available for bespoke requirements
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EU GDPR / UK Data Representative

Leverage Zeidler Group’s dedicated legal and regulatory compliance expertise and range of legal efficiencies to best ensure compliance with EU GDPR / UK Data representative requirements.

Standard service

  • Two dedicated staff in the EU and the UK, respectively to act as a local point of contact in the EU / UK for EU / UK data subjects and supervisory authorities on all matters relating to the processing of personal data.
  • Facilitate communications between the client and data subjects /
    supervisory authorities
  • Hold and maintain a copy of the client’s Records of Processing Activities
    and making it available to the relevant supervisory authorities upon request
  • Provision of contact details in the EU / UK for inclusion in the client’s
    privacy policies etc

Enhanced service

  • Advice on how to respond to requests from data subjects and supervisory authorities.
  • Provision of regular updates on EU and GDPR laws or answering specific questions.
  • Any other bespoke GDPR compliance support that you may require.
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European Facilities Agent Service

Our European Facilities Agent Service is a comprehensive one-stop shop solution designed to take the burden out of meeting obligations internally or paying local agents fees in each respective jurisdiction.

  • EU wide coverage
  • Replace all your local agents with one central agent
  • Covers all local language requirements
  • Access to online platform to make relevant
    information and documents available to investors
  • Fair, transparent and fixed fee with savings of up to 80%
  • Zeidler Group will seamlessly takeover when the new cross border distribution directive is implemented into the national law of each EU member state by (2nd August 2021 at the very latest)
  • One central point of contact, one low cost and unlimited freedom
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ESG Legal Advisory Service

Leverage Zeidler’s multi-disciplined and multi-jurisdictional team of legal and regulatory experts to advise you on Sustainable Finance and ESG related matters.  Our ESG Legal Advisory services include legal advisory, regulatory compliance and digital solutions.

Legal Advisory

  • Product scoping, adaptation and alignment
  • Performing a gap analysis on a client’s current approach at entity and product-level on ESG integration, disclosure and reporting against SFDR level 1 and 2 requirements as well as the Taxonomy and its delegated acts (where applicable)
  • Providing bespoke and ad-hoc support on SFDR, Taxonomy and other sustainable finance related queries

Regulatory compliance

  •  Assistance in drafting the sustainability-related disclosures and documentation at entity and product level (to be published on websites, annual reports and pre-contractual documents – in prospectuses, KIIDs)
  • Ensuring consistency of communication in marketing materials (Factsheets, brochures, presentations, etcetera)
  • Advising on key national requirements in certain EU jurisdictions(notably France and Germany)

Digital solutions

  • SFDR Reporting service 
  • Managing all SFDR related matters  – production, management, translation, legal content drafting and enhanced dissemination.
  • Entire process is managed and monitored via Zeidler’s digital platform
  • Additional support available for bespoke requirements

We can also support and advise on the following compliance topics:

  • SFDR (Sustainable finance disclosures regulation) (EU 2019/2088) 
  • Taxonomy Regulation ((EU) 2020/852) 
  • Shareholders Rights Directive II ((EU) 2017/828) 
  • Stewardship Codes 
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TMD Generator

To help you meet your Australian Design and Distribution Obligations (DDO), we provide a digital solution to generate and manage your Target Market Definition (TMD) documents. Our service spans all TMD related matters, including production, management and dissemination.

  • Official licence holder of the Financial Services Council (FSC) TMD template
  • Automated generation of the TMD document and data report
  • Purposeful management of the TMD: users can review, comment and approve the TMD document on our platform
  • Enhanced dissemination to all of the products’ distribution channels via email / download / API
  • Archival TMD management: Users can store historic versions of TMDs
  • Entire process is managed and monitored via Zeidler’s digital platform
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Counterparty Due Diligence (CDD) – ESG questionnaire

We provide a digital Counterparty Due Diligence solution that is future proof and can be tailored to your specific ESG requirements. We can help with all aspects of the CDD process, including validation. 

  • Providing access to our best-practice questionnaire or creating a bespoke questionnaire that caters to meet your specific ESG related requirements 
  • Managing dissemination to the delegates/counterparties and ensuring completion of the questionnaire 
  • Rating responses provided based on your rating priorities and risk appetite 
  • Validating responses provided  via online/telephone/onsite validation 
  • Providing advice on how to mitigate identified ESG related risks (upon request) 
  • The entire process is managed and monitored via Zeidler Swift. 
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SFDR Disclosures Tool

Leverage Zeidler Group’s ESG expertise and digitally innovative workflows to meet regulatory, legal and compliance obligations and disclosure requirements. 

  • Managing all SFDR pre-contractual and periodic disclosures –  production, management, translation, legal content drafting and enhanced dissemination via our self-service tool. 
  • Entire process is managed and monitored via Zeidler Swift.
  • Additional support available for bespoke requirements.
  • For a demo, please email our experts to learn more:
[email protected] 
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EET Production, Management, and Dissemination

Our EET solution ensures ESG data transparency with dedicated expertise via our digital platform. 

  • Production and validation of EETs.
  • Enhanced dissemination of EETs to data vendors, distributors or any other destinations via email, S(FTP), API etc with a full audit trail.
  • Additional support available for bespoke requirements.
  • Tool to be live by June 2022.
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Global Knowledge Hub – Sustainable Finance

The Global Knowledge Hub is our proprietary web-based knowledge platform. Our sustainable finance module provides access to practical information on ESG related regulatory compliance, disclosure, and reporting requirements for UCITS and AIFs in multiple jurisdictions. This information has been created and simplified by our in-house team of lawyers and subject specialists within our ESG Services Division. 

  • Digital platform 
  • Provides practical information on disclosure requirements relating to articles 6, 8, & 9 of SFDR and articles 5, 6 and 7 of the Taxonomy Regulation 
  • Created and regularly updated by sustainable finance specialist lawyers
  • Fixed annual fee and flexible subscription plans to suit your needs 
  • Includes support for queries via phone, email and chatbot 
  • Unlimited number of users 
  • Coming soon 
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Factsheets

Our factsheet solution takes a holistic approach with digital workflows and dedicated legal and compliance oversight to ensure full compliance, transparency, and timely processes.

  • Full integration– connect to any data source for seamless integration.
  • Template flexibility–  fully adaptable and customisable in terms of design, size, use of existing templates and creation of new template designs.
  • Scalability– Our solution can work with thousands of documents to ensure efficient and flexible results without compromising on quality.
  • Timeliness– our solution takes a holistic approach to significantly reduce complexity and total costs of ownership for clients to ensure a stress-free and simplified factsheet process.
  • End-to-end technology– Utilises fully-automated workflow processes as part of Zeidler Group’s award-winning digital platform.
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        Formation of your Investment Funds

        From fund formation to daily maintenance and cross-border registrations.

        Legal Management of your Investment Funds (Local Counsel Service)

        Zeidler adds some zoom to investment funds law, with nimbler processes.

        Cross-Border Registrations

        Registration of investment funds (UCITS and AIFs)in the EU and EEA.

        Ongoing Fund Governance

        Let us take care of the ongoing fund governance.

        Global Knowledge Hub

        Practical legal and compliance information for asset managers and investment funds (UCITS and AIFs) covering multiple jurisdictions.

        Cross-Border Legal Advice

        Demand answers to specific legal questions on the laws of various jurisdictions.

        UCITS KIID and PRIIPs KID – Production, Management, Calculations and Dissemination

        We provide an end-to-end solution that combines our legal expertise with our digital platform to generate and manage your K(I)IDs. Our service spans all K(I)ID related matters, including production, management, translation, legal monitoring and dissemination.

        Counterparty Due Diligence (CDD)

        Our CDD solution helps you to make sense of your distribution network and ensures compliance and risk management.

        MiFID Compliance Officer and Trainings

        We provide a full MiFID compliance solution that covers everything from providing general and bespoke advice to a fully outsourced compliance solution.

        Support Services

        Document Dissemination

        We can distribute fund documents and completed forms to regulators and investors on your behalf. Our document dissemination service includes dedicated regulatory and compliance support to handle every aspect of the dissemination journey. 

        Company Secretary Services

        Our Company Secretary Services includes dedicated legal support to handle every aspect our clients require.

        Support Services

        Local Agency Services

        We provide local agency services in Germany, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

        Support Services

        Process Agent (Receiving Agent) Services

        Process / Receiving Agent Services for international parties who enter into transactions in Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom.

        Support Services

        Stock Exchange Listings

        We list funds on stock exchanges in the EU and in Switzerland, including cross-listings.

        Support Services

        Notarisation Agent Services

        A service for international companies doing business in Germany.

        EMT / EPT – Production, Validation and Dissemination

        Validate and disseminate EMTs in v3.0 and v3.1 and EPTs via our digital platform.

        EU GDPR / UK Data Representative

        Leverage Zeidler Group’s dedicated legal and regulatory compliance expertise and range of legal efficiencies to best ensure compliance with EU GDPR / UK Data representative requirements

        European Facilities Agent Service

        Our European Facilities Agent Service is a comprehensive one-stop shop solution designed to take the burden out of meeting obligations internally or paying local agents fees in each respective jurisdiction.

        ESG Legal Advisory Service

        The A-Z of ESG is covered with Zeidler’s ESG Legal Advisory Service. Our team of regulatory and legal experts can advise you on all Sustainable Finance and ESG related matters from SFDR, Taxonomy Regulation, Shareholders Rights Directive II and Stewardship Codes.

        TMD Generator

        We provide an end-to-end solution that combines our legal tech expertise with our digital platform to generate and manage your Australian Target Market Definition (TMD) documents. Our service spans all TMD related matters, including production, management, and dissemination.

        Counterparty Due Diligence (CDD) – ESG questionnaire

        Our CDD-ESG solution helps you to make sense of your delegates / counterparty networks and ensure compliance and risk mitigation for ESG reporting and regulatory requirements.

        SFDR Disclosures Tool

        Our SFDR Disclosures Tool includes automated workflows and dedicated legal and regulatory support for robust compliance.

        EET Production, Management, and Dissemination

        Validate and disseminate EETs via our digital platform.

        Global Knowledge Hub – Sustainable Finance

        Practical ESG and sustainable finance-focused legal, regulatory and compliance information for asset managers and investment funds (UCITS and AIFs) covering multiple jurisdictions.

        Factsheets

        Experience a complete end-to-end solution with dedicated expertise in production, legal overlay, and enhanced dissemination 

        Get ahead in your world

        Zeidler’s range of asset management
        clients includes some of the largest,
        most respected names in the industry,
        as well as boutique operators. We service
        more than 100 clients with aggregate assets
        under management above USD 1 trillion.

        Zeidler’s strength is that they offer an end-to-end solution from fund formation to cross-border registration around the globe. We have worked with Zeidler for many years and have always been very pleased with the service.

        Magnus Fielko | Chief Executive Officer | Nomura Asset Management Europe

        I have only had a great experience working with the team...thank you for your partnership. Arne Zeidler and his team are first class, providing us a diverse offering of legal services at high level throughout Europe and other parts of the world.

        Michael M. Gabelli | Managing Director, The Gabelli Group, President & CEO,
        Gabelli & Partners, LLC

        Zeidler are true global registration experts. They have a vast pool of knowledge in a great number of jurisdictions.

        Eva Reiffenstein | Director Private Sales Office, Head of Department |
        Universal Investment

        From the outset, Zeidler have been informative, reliable and accessible. They have worked to fulfil our requirements with a capable and unobtrusive ease and we continue to consider them indispensable.

        Gemma Magee | Compliance | Fundsmith LLP

        We are more than satisfied – they bring us confidence. If something is important we call them – and that is that. It is not the typical lawyer attitude – the clock is not ticking, and the pound signs are not increasing with every call.

        Jean-Michel Boehm I CEO I Seilern Investment Management