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2022 Compliance Developments and Calendar for Private Fund Advisers

Compliance Reminders for 2022 - Registered investment advisers to private funds clients are required to make filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) each year and deliver certain information to their...more

SEC Charges 21 Advisers for Form CRS Failures – Impact on Private Fund Managers

On July 26, 2021, 21 investment advisers entered into settlements with the Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve charges that they failed to timely file and deliver their relationship summaries on Form CRS. Penalties...more

SEC Adopts New Interpretation of Fiduciary Duty

On June 5, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted a comprehensive interpretation (the “Interpretation”) of the fiduciary duties that investment advisers owe to their clients under the Investment Advisers...more

SEC OCIE Issues Guidance on Advisers’ Recordkeeping Requirements for Electronic Messaging Following its Sweep Examination

• On December 14, the SEC’s OCIE issued a Risk Alert summarizing the findings of its limited-scope examination initiative relating to electronic messaging. • Noting a “pervasive use” of electronic messaging by adviser...more

Podcast: Akin Gump Post-Funds Conference Report

In this episode, Akin Gump investment management partners Kelli Moll and Stephen Vine report on the firm’s recent New York Private Investment Funds Conference, the topics covered from the dais and the hot topics going into...more

Common Reporting Standard Enters Into Effect for Investment Funds in Early Adopter Jurisdictions

If you read one thing. . . - On January 1, 2016, the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) enters into effect in key investment fund jurisdictions, including the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands. ...more

CFTC Proposes Significant New Regulations for Algorithmic Trading—What Investment Managers Need to Know

If you read one thing... - Proposed Regulation AT sets out minimum pre-trade safeguards and internal policy requirements on all “AT Persons,” which would generally include persons using algorithmic systems for generating...more

CFTC Proposes Amendments to Position Limit Aggregation Exemption Rules

On September 22, 2015, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) proposed certain changes in a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (the “Supplemental Notice”) to the position limit aggregation rules and...more

SEC Brings Enforcement Action Against Investment Adviser

Just one week after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations issued a new risk alert on cybersecurity, the SEC brought an enforcement action against an investment adviser...more

UCITS Remuneration Guidelines—Impact On US Managers

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) issued a consultation paper on 23 July 2015 in respect of the proposed guidelines on remuneration (UCITS Remuneration Guidelines) regarding the remuneration principles...more

SEC Proposes Changes to Form ADV 1A Regarding Managed Accounts

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a new round of changes to its check-the-box registration form for investment advisers, Part 1A of Form ADV (“ADV 1A”), and proposed some minor changes to its recordkeeping...more

Bureau of Economic Analysis Mandatory 2014 BE-10 Survey Reporting Requirement Deadline Approaches

The Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U.S. Department of Commerce requires all U.S. persons that own or control more than 10 percent of the voting securities (a “Direct Investment”) of a “foreign” business enterprise to...more

SEC Issues New Cybersecurity Guidance for Investment Funds

On April 28, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Investment Management (the “Division”) published a Guidance Update setting forth cybersecurity concerns and advice for the registered investment ...more

Court Of Appeals Reins in Prosecutors in Insider Trading Cases

In a landmark insider trading decision issued on December 10, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit made important pronouncements favorable to the defense on two recurring and important legal issues: (1) what is...more

CFTC Staff Allows Self Executing Delegation of CPO Functions

The staff of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) yesterday changed its position and no longer requires a no-action request for delegation of commodity pool operator (CPO) functions from persons that might...more

2014-15 Compliance Developments & Calendar for Private Fund Advisers

Introduction - Registered investment advisers are required to review their policies and procedures on at least an annual basis. As aid to the required review, below is a summary of material developments during the past...more

CFTC Publishes Long-Awaited JOBS Act Relief

The staff of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) published a no-action letter on September 9, 2014 (available here) that permits certain commodity pool operators (CPOs) to conduct general solicitation in private...more

Form SHL: Foreign Resident’s Holdings of U.S. Securities Due August 2014

The U.S. Department of the Treasury requires U.S. resident issuers (including U.S. resident investment funds) and investment advisers managing foreign investment funds to report foreign residents’ holdings of U.S. securities,...more

CFTC Staff Announces Streamlined Process for CPO Delegation

On March 12, 2014, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) staff issued the long-awaited guidance letter relating to the delegation of commodity pool operator (CPO) functions from persons that might otherwise be...more

FCA Publishes Update on AIFMD Application Process

This alert will be of interest to U.K.-authorised investment management firms preparing to submit applications for variation of permission (VOP) to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in connection with the implementation...more

CFTC Re-Proposes Position Limits for Certain Commodity Futures Contracts and Economically Equivalent Swaps

On November 5, 2013, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) re-proposed speculative position limits relating to certain U.S. exchange-listed physical commodity futures contracts as well as to swaps that reference the...more

HM Treasury Identifies Potential Changes to AIFMD Authorisation Requirements for U.K. AIFMs

This alert will be of particular relevance to U.K. alternative asset managers, preparing to submit variation of permission applications to the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority in relation to the Alternative Investment Fund...more

SEC Staff Provides Clarification of Scope of Bad Actor Disqualification

The staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance published “Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations” (CDIs) on Wednesday, December 4, 2013, that provide important clarification regarding...more

AIFM Remuneration Code Guidance

Summary - The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has published draft guidance on the application of rules on remuneration (the “AIFMD Remuneration Rules”) to FCA-authorized firms, once they become authorized as...more

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