Private Equity

These are advertising and media appearance guidelines from a peer at a private equity fund advisory firm.

Buyout shops are planning to raise their profiles with accredited investors now that the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to lift a decades-old ban against ...

U.S. regulators were poised on Wednesday to lift a longtime ban on advertising for private securities offerings, paving the way for hedge funds, private equity ...

U.S.-based investment advisers that manage private funds and hope to market into the EU may wish to exchange an offering memorandum with a potential investor ...

One view holds that the recent speech by the SEC's David Blass simply spotlighted the agency's long-standing position on what types of transactions warrant an ...

Last month we warned private fund advisers that the SEC might question whether you should register as a broker-dealer (IA Watch, March 18, 2013). Now ...

It's been reported that SEC examiners are asking tough questions about expenses charged to investors by hedge and private equity fund advisers. Sources tells us ...

Two enforcement actions announced last week by the SEC highlight the risks private equity advisers face if their compliance policies and procedures aren't suitable to ...

Private-equity firms have generally been conservative when it comes to valuing their portfolio investments—with the exception, no big surprise, of when they’re in the market ...

Insider trading. Misappropriated money. Money raised from later investors used to pay interest to early investors. None of those things has happened in the private-equity ...