Private Equity

The SEC has brought its first-ever enforcement action against a private equity adviser and four firm executives for failing to disclose conflicts of interest relating ...

Although the Funds’ limited partnership agreements disclosed that the Funds would be charged for expenses that in the good faith judgment of the general partner ...

Fenway Consulting ultimately received an aggregate of $5.74 million from the Portfolio Companies during the Relevant Period. However, in contrast to the monitoring fees paid pursuant ...

No regulatory issue blazes hotter for private equity fund advisers than fees and expenses (IA Watch, Oct. 7, 2015). Now a group of institutional investors ...

That recent SEC settlement with Blackstone over uneven legal fees features two parties (IA Watch, Oct. 7, 2015). The other was an unidentified law firm. ...

The SEC alleges that the CFI and NuPower offerings violated several registration provisions of the federal securities laws. As the complaint alleges, both the CFI ...

Addressing a conference in New York Oct. 16, SEC Chair Mary Jo White urged private fund advisers to pay attention to cybersecurity. She also pointed ...

Now that we’ve shared best practices related to the use of coinvestment pools, here are examples of how various private equity fund advisers disclose them ...

A failure to properly disclose accelerated monitoring fees has landed three private equity fund advisers within the $330 billion Blackstone Group a $39 million settlement. ...

Although Blackstone disclosed that it may receive monitoring fees from portfolio companies held by the funds it advised, and disclosed the amount of monitoring fees ...