Private Equity

Demonstrating how portfolio company problems can quickly become sponsor problems, Desmond “Des” Hague, the Centerplate Inc CEO caught on tape kicking a one-year-old dog in his care, resigned ...

It has been more than a year since the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission published final rules allowing sponsors to broadly advertise and promote their ...

A report released last month by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission provides statistics that size up the U.S. buyout industry, including that 7,004 buyout ...

The private equity industry’s lobbying group met officials from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve in August to address ...

They were the words that jolted the private equity industry. SEC official David Blass spoke in April 2013, warning private equity fund advisers that transaction-based ...

The fees and expenses charged by sponsors became a far bigger issue this year after an official of the U.S. Securities and Exchange said in ...

United Parcel Service wants to co-invest in deals for the first time alongside sponsors, while Guardian Life Insurance Company of America is shopping for a ...

Andrew J. Bowden, director of compliance inspections and examinations at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, gave such a startling speech about the industry in ...

A year has passed since SEC official David Blass created a stir by reminding the industry that receiving transaction-based compensation may require a firm to ...

During its first wave of examinations of sponsors, the SEC has found widespread examples of the mishandling of fees and expenses, possible abuse of valuation ...