Overview
Lobbying Costs
1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4.5 Fte (7)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
29
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Invest Europe (Invest Europe)
EU Transparency Register
60975211600-74 First registered on 28 Apr 2009
Goals / Remit
Invest Europe is the association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors.
Our membership covers the full range of private equity activity, from early-stage venture capital to the largest private equity firms, as well as funds investing in infrastructure. We also represent professional investors into these asset classes such as pension funds and insurance companies and have associate members from related professions. In total, the association is composed of 600 member firms and around 500 affiliate members.
Invest Europe aims to make a constructive contribution to the policy debate at European level, helping its members to understand EU policy, and policymakers across the EU institutions to understand the impacts of those policies on investment in those companies backed by private equity and infrastructure investors.
Invest Europe is the guardian of the industry’s professional standards.Main EU files targeted
Invest Europe represents venture capital, private equity and infrastructure funds as well as institutions that invest in these funds. We support a competitive EU single market and a policy framework that is favourable to investment.
Invest Europe has a particular focus on policy issues that impact on fund managers' ability to invest into European companies but also that could impact on investors’ capacity to commit capital to our asset class. These include:
• Alternative investment fund managers (AIFM) - Directive 2011/61/EU
• European venture capital funds (EuVECA) - Regulation (EU) No 345/2013
• European long-term investment funds (ELTIFs) - Regulation (EU) 2015/760
• Financial conglomerates - Directive (2002/87/EC)
• Banking prudential requirements - Directive 2013/36/EU
• Banking prudential requirements - Regulation (EU) No 575/2013
• Key information documents for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) - Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014
• Markets in financial instruments (MiFID 2) - Directive 2014/65/EU
• Markets in financial instruments (MiFIR) - Regulation (EU) No 600/2014
• Prospectus - Regulation (EU) 2017/1129
• Solvency II Directive - 2009/138/EC
• Market abuse - Regulation (EU) 596/2014 &Directive 2014/57/EU
• Derivatives (EMIR) - Regulation (EU) No 648/2012
• Risk management and supervision of insurance companies (Solvency 2) - Directive 2009/138/EC
• Institutions for occupational retirement provision (IORP) - Directive 2003/41/EC
• Accounting rules - Directive 2013/34/EU
• Insolvency Directive - 2012/30/EU
• International accounting standards - Regulation (EC) No 1606/2002
• Audit directive 2006/43/EC
• Sustainable Taxonomy Regulation
• Regulation on disclosures relating to sustainable investments and sustainability risks and amending Directive (EU) 2016/2341
• State Aid Rules (including General Block Exemption Regulation and Risk Finance Guidelines
• EU framework for foreign direct investment screening
• Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) – formerly the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) - and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D)
Invest Europe also pursues any EU initiatives regarding venture capital financing, including InvestEU and the European Innovation Council.
We also work on taxation and compliance issues that relate to our industry, including notably:
• VAT rules for financial services - Directive 2006/112/EC
• Anti-tax avoidance rules - Directive 2011/16/EU
• BEFIT
• FASTER
• OECD/G20 Agreement on Pillar 1 & Pillar 2
• Debt Equity Bias Reduction Allowance
• Anti-Money Laundering rules
Finally, Invest Europe follows legislation that may impact portfolio companies, as – non exhaustive – examples: Energy, Tech and Healthcare initiatives.Address
Head Office
Avenue Louise 81
Brussels 1050
BELGIUMEU Office
Avenue Louise 81
Brussels 1050
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
7
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 5 50% 1 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 21 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Jacob Martin Bresson 15 Jul 2024 14 Jul 2025 Conor Quinn 21 Sep 2023 21 Sep 2024 Christophe VERBOOMEN 21 Sep 2023 21 Sep 2024 Niels BERENDS 22 Sep 2023 21 Sep 2024 Niels BEREDNS 22 Sep 2023 25 Sep 2023 Ms Klaudia PIASECZNA 09 Nov 2022 09 Nov 2023 Eric de Montgolfier 09 Nov 2022 09 Nov 2023 Eric de Montgolfier 17 Nov 2021 09 Nov 2022 Christophe VERBOOMEN 21 Sep 2022 21 Sep 2023 Conor Quinn 10 Jun 2022 10 Jun 2023 Jacob Martin Bresson 20 Jan 2022 20 Jan 2023 Eric de Montgolfier 17 Nov 2021 07 Nov 2022 Ms Xandra Hjort 08 Sep 2021 09 Sep 2022 Christophe VERBOOMEN 21 Sep 2021 21 Sep 2022 Ms Sofia GARRIDO PEREZ 25 Feb 2021 17 Feb 2022 Jacob Martin Bresson 08 Jan 2021 08 Jan 2022 Eric de Montgolfier 21 Nov 2020 17 Nov 2021 Christophe VERBOOMEN 22 Sep 2020 21 Sep 2021 Ms Erika Blanckaert 27 Feb 2020 27 Feb 2021 Simon Tosserams 27 Feb 2020 09 Sep 2020 Jacob Martin Bresson 10 Jan 2020 08 Jan 2021 Eric de Montgolfier 21 Nov 2019 21 Nov 2020 Christophe VERBOOMEN 10 Sep 2019 10 Sep 2020 Ms Erika Blanckaert 27 Feb 2019 27 Feb 2020 Mr Michael Collins 27 Feb 2019 07 Sep 2019 Simon Tosserams 30 Jan 2019 01 Feb 2020 Ms Anna Lekston 23 Jan 2019 03 Oct 2019 Christophe VERBOOMEN 29 Aug 2018 01 Sep 2019 Ms Clarisse Hannotin 29 Aug 2018 01 Jan 2019 Mr Tony Martin-Brieu 04 Jul 2018 06 Jan 2019 Ms Erika Blanckaert 23 Feb 2018 23 Feb 2019 Mr Michael Collins 23 Feb 2018 23 Feb 2019 Ms Anna Lekston 17 Jan 2018 17 Jan 2019 Danny O'CONNELL 03 Jan 2018 25 Jul 2018 Christophe VERBOOMEN 31 Aug 2017 23 Aug 2018 Ms Erika Blanckaert 21 Feb 2017 17 Feb 2018 Mr Michael Collins 21 Feb 2017 17 Feb 2018 Ms Anna Lekston 23 Jan 2017 13 Jan 2018 Danny O'CONNELL 03 Dec 2016 02 Dec 2017 Christophe VERBOOMEN 05 Sep 2016 31 Aug 2017 Ms Erika Blanckaert 24 Feb 2016 22 Feb 2017 Mr Michael Collins 24 Feb 2016 22 Feb 2017 Ms Dörte Höppner 09 Feb 2016 02 Dec 2016 Ms Anna Lekston 30 Jan 2016 24 Jan 2017 Danny O'CONNELL 18 Nov 2015 13 Nov 2016 Christophe VERBOOMEN 21 Aug 2015 21 Aug 2016 Ms Erika Blanckaert 06 Mar 2015 24 Feb 2016 Mr Michael Collins 06 Mar 2015 24 Feb 2016 Ms Dörte Höppner 28 Jan 2015 26 Jan 2016 Ms Dörte Höppner 29 Jan 2014 29 Jan 2015 Ms Erika Blanckaert 19 Mar 2014 06 Mar 2015 Ms Anna Lekston 06 Jan 2015 19 Dec 2015 Mrs Anna Lekston 06 Jan 2015 27 Jan 2015 Danny O'CONNELL 05 Nov 2014 03 Nov 2015 Christophe VERBOOMEN 04 Sep 2014 21 Aug 2015 Mrs Erika Blanckaert 19 Mar 2014 27 Jan 2015 Mr Laurent De Smedt 19 Mar 2014 03 Sep 2014 Mr Michael Collins 19 Mar 2014 06 Mar 2015 Mrs Dörte Höppner 29 Jan 2014 27 Jan 2015 Mrs Anna Lekston 10 Jan 2014 06 Jan 2015 Danny O'CONNELL 29 Oct 2013 26 Oct 2014 Mr James Crisp 24 Apr 2013 04 Apr 2014 Mrs Erika Blanckaert 18 Apr 2013 19 Mar 2014 Mr Laurent De Smedt 18 Apr 2013 19 Mar 2014 Mr Michael Collins 18 Apr 2013 19 Mar 2014 Mrs Dörte Höppner 19 Feb 2013 29 Jan 2014 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
N/A
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount gide loyrette nouel 50,000€ - 99,999€ fleishman hillard 200,000€ - 299,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name fleishman hillard Closed year Costs
1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€
Other financial info
Additional details on our Public Affairs activities can be found here: https://www.investeurope.eu/about-us/who-we-are/annual-reports-other-reporting/
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Commission Expert Group On Enhanced Coordination of External Financial Tools#E03934#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3934 #OBSERVER #C#Industry
Groups (European Parliament)
Competitive European Industry: long-term and sustainable investment
Communication activities
On behalf of its members Invest Europe produces industry position papers and responds to EU/international public consultations on policy/regulatory issues of relevance to our industry. We also produce guides, Q&As and policy briefings for our membership.
Over the past few years Invest Europe has responded to the following consultations and produced the following position papers:
• EC Consultation on the AIFMD review
• EC Consultation on State Aid
• EC Consultation on Interim Evaluation of the InvestEU Programme
• EC Consultation on the ELTIF Review
• EC Consultation on Risk Finance Guidelines
• EC Consultation on the EU Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Framework
• EC Consultation on Sustainable Corporate Governance
• EC Consultation on the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation
• Position paper for the Interinstitutional Negotiations on the Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive (CS3D)
• Position papers on the Retail Investment Strategy
• EC Consultation on institutional investors and asset managers' duties regarding sustainability
• EC Consultation and Position paper on Insolvency Law
• Position paper on the EU response to the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)
• Position paper on the Solvency II Directive review
• Position paper on the AI Act from the Investor Perspective
• Position paper on the Draft implementing Regulation of the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation
• Position paper on the Directive on Faster and Safer Relief of Excess Withholding Taxes (FASTER)
• Position paper on the Directive on Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT)• Position paper on the CRD/CRR review
• EC Consultations on the review of the CRR framework and CRR Delegated Acts
• EBA Consultation on Guidelines related to Article 128 of the Capital Requirement Regulation (high-risk exposures)
• Joint ESAs consultation on the review of KID-PRIIPS Regulatory technical standards
• Response to EC Consultation on MiFID ii/MiFIR
• EC Consultation on the review of the Market Abuse Regulation
• Position paper on the proposal on prudential treatment of investment firms amending CRD/CRR and MiFID/MiFIR
• EBA Consultation on IFD-R Level 2 measures
• EC Consultation on its proposal on SME listings
• EC Consultations on the review of the SME Definition Recommendation
• EC questionnaires on EU Merger control
• Industry response to ESAs consultation on SFDR/Taxonomy disclosures
• Industry response to ESMA consultation on CBDF marketing communications
• EC Roadmap on EU small listed companies Act
• EC Roadmap on Review of the VAT rules for financial and insurance services
• EC Roadmap on State aid rules for Research, Development and Innovation
• EC Roadmap on Europe’s digital decade: 2030 digital targets
• EC Roadmap on Business taxation for the 21st century
• EC Roadmap on Retail Investment Strategy
• EC Roadmap on Debt equity bias reduction allowance (DEBRA)
• EC Roadmap on New EU system for the avoidance of double taxation in the field of withholding taxes
• EC Consultation on Sustainable corporate governance
On behalf of its members Invest Europe produces industry position papers and responds to EU/international public consultations on policy/regulatory issues of relevance to our industry. We also produce guides, Q&As and policy briefings for our membership.Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
29 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 15 May 2024 Location Brussels Subject CMU in the Letta Report DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - John Berrigan (Director-General)
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Date 15 May 2024 Location Brussels Subject Future of the European Union’s Single Market to EU leaders DG Climate Action Attending - Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General)
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Date 23 Feb 2024 Location Gent Subject Energy and climate transition DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - John Berrigan (Director-General)
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Date 22 Feb 2024 Location Ghent Subject Physical meeting - Discussion on various issues related to the state of the CMU DG Taxation and Customs Union Attending - Gerassimos Thomas (Director-General)
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Date 19 Sep 2023 Location Brussels Subject European Long Term Investment Funds (ELTIFs), Foreign direct investment (FDI) screening framework, competitiveness, Retail investment strategy (RIS) Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
- Florian Denis (Cabinet member)
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Date 05 Sep 2023 Location Brussels Subject EU investment environment DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - John Berrigan (Director-General)
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Date 04 Sep 2023 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject “EU response to the US Inflation Reduction Act; Capital Markets Union; Sustainable Finance; EU Foreign Directive Investment framework.” Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Valdis Dombrovskis (Executive Vice-President)
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Date 07 Oct 2021 Location Video Conferencing Subject Private Equity Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Florian Denis (Cabinet member)
- Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
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Date 30 Sep 2021 Location video conference Subject Solvency II, Basel implementation Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
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Date 22 Jun 2021 Location Brussels Subject Commissioners participation at an InvestEurope conference and general discussion on venture capital and private equity Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Nathalie De Basaldua Lemarchand (Cabinet member)
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Date 29 Apr 2021 Location video-conference Subject Capital Markets Union Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Apr 2021 Location virtual Subject CMU/AIFMD/ELTIF Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Florian Denis (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 Feb 2021 Location Virtual call Subject Introduction to invest europe, Basel III Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Tommy De Temmerman (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Feb 2021 Location Brussels Subject introductory call Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Nathalie De Basaldua Lemarchand (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Mar 2020 Location Brussels, BE Subject Green Deal and investment in Europe Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni Portfolio Economy Attending - Alienor Margerit (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 Feb 2020 Location Brussels Subject Capital Markets Union Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Apr 2019 Location Brussels Subject Venture Capital in Europe Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas Portfolio Research, Science and Innovation Attending - Keith Sequeira (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Oct 2018 Location Brussels Subject Invest Week Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Florentine Hopmeier (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Sep 2018 Location Brussels Subject Solvency II review Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Apr 2018 Location Brussels Subject Cross-border distribution of investment funds Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Jan 2017 Location Brussels Subject Fund of Funds Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas Portfolio Research, Science and Innovation Attending - Manuel Nobre Goncalves (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 Nov 2015 Location London Subject Round Table on Venture Capital Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill Portfolio Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Jonathan Hill (Commissioner)
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Date 03 Nov 2015 Location Brussels Subject Venture capital Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas Portfolio Research, Science and Innovation Attending - Carlos Moedas (Commissioner)
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Date 09 Sep 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Capital Markets Union Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill Portfolio Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Jack Schickler (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 May 2015 Location Brussels Subject Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Lee Foulger (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 Apr 2015 Location Brussels Subject Capital Markets Union Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill Portfolio Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Chantal Hughes (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Venture capital Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Valérie Herzberg (Cabinet member)
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Date 29 Jan 2015 Location Brussels Subject Contribution of venture capital to Research & Innovation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas Portfolio Research, Science and Innovation Attending - Carlos Moedas (Commissioner)
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Date 08 Jan 2015 Location Brussels Subject CMU/Venture capital issues Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Lee Foulger (Cabinet member)