Private Equity

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 ...

Guggenheim Partners Investment Management LLC has agreed to pay $20 million to settle federal charges that it failed to disclose a $50 million loan by ...

By all measures the investment adviser industry shows healthy growth. That’s one of the conclusions in the recently released 15th annual Evolution Revolution study from ...

Given that many state public pension plans invest in private equity funds, a collection of 12 state treasurers – from California to Vermont – have ...

Senior SEC Enforcement and OCIE officials have been hinting at this one for a while—a private equity enforcement case centered around misallocated expenses. On June ...