Paving the Toll Road—Making ELTIFs a Suitable Alternative for Institutional and Retail Investors

Summary: The EU is in the process of assessing the introduction of new European Long-Term Investment Funds (ELTIFs) intended to fuel capital formation for energy and infrastructure fund vehicles. Continuing negotiations on recently published and competing proposals to the EC’s ELTIF Ordinance, however, suggest that the launch of ELTIFs may be delayed beyond 2015.