Flashback: Buyouts Magazine Warned About Fee Waiver Strategy Five Years Ago

Editor’s Note: The New York attorney general has launched an investigation into a popular tax strategy used by buyout professionals in which they fund a portion of their GP contribution with waived management fees, according to the New York Times. Buyouts back in April 2007 warned about the danger of this strategy in the first of a two-part column by Editor David Toll on the unspoken risks of private equity.