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Private Equity Funds Multi-Employer Pensions

Dickinson Wright

PE Funds Are Not Part of Controlled Group; What About Your Company?

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Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to review the First Circuit Court of Appeals decision in the Sun Capital Partners III, LP v. New England Teamsters and Trucking Industry Pension Fund case, thereby...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Private Investment Funds Not Liable for Portfolio Company's Pension Withdrawal Liability

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has held in Sun Capital Partners III, LP v. New England Teamsters & Trucking Industry Pension Fund that two Sun Capital Funds were not under common control with Scott Brass...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Sun Capital Wins - But All Private Equity Funds May Not

Just before Thanksgiving, the First Circuit Court of Appeals handed a “win” to Sun Capital’s private equity funds which had been battling against multiemployer pension withdrawal liability since the 2008 bankruptcy of the...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

A Compilation of Non-Enforcement Actions

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Non-Enforcement - Amendments to the Venture Capital Fund Adviser and Private Fund Adviser Exemptions - Last month the SEC’s Division of Investment Management issued a guidance update (Update) addressing recent...more

King & Spalding

Private Equity Fund May Be Liable for Portfolio Company Withdrawal Liability

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In Sun Capital Partners III, LP v. New England Teamsters and Trucking Industry Pension Fund, the First Circuit Court of Appeals held that an investment fund managed by private equity firm Sun Capital Advisors, Inc. (“Sun...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"First Circuit Holds That a Private Equity Fund May be Liable for Portfolio Company Pension Obligations"

On July 24, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that a private equity fund sponsored by Sun Capital Advisors constituted a “trade or business” for purposes of ERISA multiemployer pension withdrawal...more

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