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).

• 1. The European AIFMD ; 2. United Kingdom ; 3. France ; 4. Germany ; 5. Ireland ; 6. Italy ; 7. Luxembourg ; 8. Netherlands ; 9. Spain ; 10. Sweden

'...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.'