Many private equity deals are set up to keep ownership of the portfolio entity below the 80% threshold under ERISA so as not to make ...
Issues tied to fees and expenses are “dominating” today’s SEC examinations of private fund advisers. That message was delivered by several Kirkland & Ellis partners ...
The outcry in the wake of the Panama Papers release has quickly filtered down to investment advisers. Fewer than 24 hours after the release, a ...
A second Park Hill Group employee played a brief and unwitting role in an alleged scheme by former Park Hill executive Andrew Caspersen to defraud investors ...
The arrest and charging of former Park Hill Group executive Andrew Caspersen for an alleged scheme related to a private-equity-fund restructuring is not a sign ...
Aaron Schlaphoff, who recently joined Kirkland & Ellis as a partner after working at the SEC, in an interview with IA Watch’s sister publication Buyouts, flagged compliance issues for ...
The role of exchange-traded funds, private fund advisers, disclosure and that of boards of directors in fund oversight are current hot button areas for the ...
It almost makes too much sense. If a private equity fund adviser manages a portfolio that includes companies that produce a product, the adviser’s staff ...
At IA Watch’s IA Compliance: The Full 360 Degree conference last month, both the advertising and marketing and SEC exams panels heard the same question: ...
President Barack Obama has called on the doubling of the funding for the SEC from its 2015 level by 2021. In his 2017 fiscal year ...