Private Equity

Bill Myers

Terms & Conditions

LPs to SEC: Save our side letters

Disclosure requirements are 'problematic', the Institutional Limited Partners Association says.

5 min read · 15 March 2023

News & Analysis

SEC chairman dials back private fund reform ambitions

Gary Gensler, head of the US financial regulator, is expected to focus on ESG and market structure reforms.

3 min read · 09 December 2022

Regulation

US Senate Democrats agree to $14bn carried interest tax reform

Earlier efforts to reform carried interest taxation had stalled, before US Senator Joe Manchin announced on Wednesday that he and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had worked out a deal.

3 min read · 28 July 2022

Deals

Tough new SEC rules could chill SPACs

Will a new rulemaking proposal from the SEC slow down the use of blank-cheque companies, which raised a record $162.5bn through 613 IPOs last year?

3 min read · 31 March 2022

SEC proposals will shred existing deals

Proposal uses present tense, not future tense, and the industry is worried.

4 min read · 18 March 2022

News & Analysis

SEC proposes sweeping changes to private funds

If brought into law, the proposals would include ban a raft of fees, expenses and business practices in all private funds.

4 min read · 09 February 2022

News & Analysis

SEC’s AMAC urges opening of private funds to retail investors

The commission's Asset Management Advisory Committee has issued a series of recommendations that would help open up the market even wider to retail investors.

3 min read · 29 September 2021

News & Analysis

DOL quietly enacts ESG rules

President Trump's Department of Labor has instituted new rules that many see as a blow to the growing environmental, social and governance investment models.

3 min read · 10 November 2020

News & Analysis

How will we manage Main Street?

The ground being laid in the US to welcome retail investors into alternatives is rocky. Where mid-market managers fit is an open question.

8 min read · 28 October 2020

News & Analysis

Divided Commission updates accredited investor definitions

A divided SEC has widened the definition of accredited investors, another tentative step to bring more retail investors into the private funds market.

2 min read · 27 August 2020

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