Private Equity

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 ...

A little-noted aspect of the first set of examinations of private equity shops by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is that the agency in ...

There's a really easy tipoff to examiners that a firm's compliance operation may not be up to snuff. When the firm's asked what it considers ...

Word has filtered out that the first wave of examinations of buyout firms by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has not exactly gone swimmingly. ...

The SEC is investigating whether private equity fund advisers are illegally charging fees that are not disclosed to investors, the agency’s top enforcement chief said. ...