On February 7 2024, the European Union adopted a final text amending the AIFMD and UCITS directives (AIFMD II). In a recent Client & Friends Memo authored by Michael Newell and Alix Prentice, we focus on loan origination funds and the novel rules applying to them in terms of scope, leverage requirements and liquidity management requirements, as well as important considerations for the grandfathering period as these entirely new rules come into force locally across Europe.