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Seward & Kissel LLP

[Event] Getting a Deal Done: M&A Opportunities for Asset and Wealth Managers - October 26th, New York, NY

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What to expect? The first half of 2022 marked another banner period for asset and wealth management deals, with deal volume up 11% compared to the same period in 2021, according to PWC. And the market for buying and selling...more

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

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

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Mass. District Court Holds Private Equity Funds Liable for a Portfolio Entity’s Pension Benefits

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The Private Equity Practice has been getting an increasing number of calls related to the decision made earlier this spring (Sun Capital Partners III, LP v. New Eng. Teamsters & Trucking Indus. Pension Fund, 2016 US Dist....more

Bracewell LLP

Private Equity Fund Charged by SEC with Violation of the Pay-to-Play Rules for Investment Advisors

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The Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") recently announced that it had charged TL Ventures, a Philadelphia-area private equity firm (the "Firm") with the first ever case involving a violation of the "pay-to-play...more

Troutman Pepper

First Circuit Holds Private Equity Fund May Be Liable For Portfolio Company’s Pension Liability

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On July 24, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that two private equity funds managed by Sun Capital could be liable for their portfolio company’s withdrawal liability from a multiemployer pension plan (Sun...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Legal Alert: Not Exactly a Day in the Sun: U.S. Court of Appeals Holds Private Equity Fund Is Engaged in a Trade or Business

In Sun Capital Partners III LP v. New England Teamsters & Trucking Industry Pension Fund, No. 12-2312, 2013 WL 3814984 (1st Cir. July 24, 2013), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit effectively found that the...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Private Investment Funds May Be Liable for Portfolio Company's Underfunded Pension Liabilities under First Circuit Ruling

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On July 24, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that a private equity investment fund was engaged in a "trade or business" under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA)...more

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Private Investment Funds May Be Liable For Portfolio Company’s Underfunded Pension Liabilities Under First Circuit Ruling

On July 24, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled in Sun Capital Partners III, LP v. New England Teamsters and Trucking Industry Pension Fund (No. 12-2312, 2013 WL 3814984) that a private equity...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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