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Reforming the UK Regime for Private Fund Managers: FCA and HMT Papers Point the Way

In our recent alert “Properly Valuing Private Equity, Venture, Real Estate, and Other Private Market Assets: Some Pointers for UK and EU Managers”, we discussed the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA’s) focus on fund...more

Properly Valuing Private Equity, Venture, Real Estate, and Other Private Markets Assets: Some Pointers for UK and EU Managers

In our recent alert “New Year, Similar Concerns: The FCA’s 2025 Priorities for UK Private Fund Managers,” we discussed the updated supervisory strategy and priorities which the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has for...more

Loan Fund Structures under AIFMD2: ESMA’s Proposals

In our recent alert Loan Origination Under AIFMD2: A Guide on loan origination under the revised Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD2), we noted that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)...more

Liquidity Management Under AIFMD2: RTS for Open-Ended Funds

In our recent alert Loan Origination Under AIFMD2: A Guide, on loan origination under the revised Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD2), we noted that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)...more

Recent Updates in the UK Venture Fundraising Landscape - August 2024

As venture fund formation lawyers, we take a keen interest in helping our clients raise capital for their funds. If you are currently fundraising or expect to do so soon, we have pulled together a summary of some key recent...more

ELTIF 2.0 RTS: Second Time Lucky and A Positive Step Forward on Liquidity and Redemptions

In our previous alerts (here and here), we noted critical feedback that the European Commission (Commission) gave to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on its December 2023 draft Regulatory Technical...more

Loan Origination Under AIFMD2: A Guide

The revised Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD2) introduces new requirements for funds managed by EU-based alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) that originate loans. Most of the requirements...more

ESG and EU Fund Names: ESMA’s Final Guidelines

On 14 May 2024, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its final guidelines ESMA34-472-440 Final Report on the Guidelines on funds names (europa.eu) on the use of ESG- or sustainability-related terms...more

End of the Beginning: AIFMD II’s Final Text

In our previous alert AIFMD II (Near) Final Text Agreed: What’s New? and in our recent update in our Horizon Scan, we noted that the Council of the European Union (EU) had published the final compromise amending text setting...more

ESG / Sustainability-Related Terms in Fund Names: Some News from ESMA

The market had been expecting feedback by now from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) regarding its November 2022 consultation on its guidelines on funds’ names using ESG or sustainability-related terms...more

The FCA’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements and Labelling Regime (SDR): A Flexible Regime for UK Private Fund Managers

In our previous alert, The Sustainability Disclosure Requirements and Investment Labels Rules: Tougher ESG Standards for UK Private Fund Managers, we discussed the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) October 2022 consultation...more

Recent Updates in the UK Venture Fundraising Landscape

As venture fund formation lawyers, we take a keen interest in helping our clients raise capital for their funds. If you are currently fundraising or expecting to do so soon, we have pulled together a summary of some key...more

AIFMD II (Near) Final Text Agreed: What’s New?

In our previous alert AIFMD II Gathers Momentum: The European Parliament Finalises Its Proposed Text and recent update October 2023 Horizon Scan for Private Investment Funds, we noted the draft text of the Alternative...more

The SEC’s New Private Funds Rules on Preferential Treatment: How Do They Compare With the AIFMD?

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently adopted new rules for private fund managers, which we covered in our alert SEC Adopts Expansive (Albeit Slightly Softened) Private Funds Rules. The new rules include...more

EU Sustainable Finance Legislative Impact on Private Funds: Overview Guide - June 2023

The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) is a European regulation that has applied directly in the EU (and EEA countries) since March 2021. The aim of the SFDR is to provide harmonised disclosure requirements,...more

The EU Retail Investment Strategy and Private Fund Managers

The European Commission published its Retail Investment Package (the Package) in May 2023. The Package aims to streamline and modernise investor protection rules in EU laws, including the Alternative Investment Fund Managers...more

The EU Sustainable Finance Package: key points for private fund managers

On 13 June the European Commission (the Commission) published a new package of measures to bolster the EU sustainable finance framework.  Its aim is to: “ensure that the EU sustainable finance framework continues to...more

ELTIF Regulation regulatory technical standards (RTS): Important detail in the ESMA consultation

On 23 May 2023, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a Consultation Paper on draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) supplementing the amended ELTIF Regulation (Amending Regulation), heralded as...more

ELTIF Reform: A Milestone in the Development of an EU Private Fund Structure for Accessing Wholesale Markets

The European Long-Term Investment Fund (ELTIF), a collective investment framework for both professional and retail investors looking to invest in long-term assets, has been available to EU managers since December 2015. ...more

AIFMD II Gathers Momentum: The European Parliament Finalises Its Proposed Text

Since the European Commission (the Commission) published a proposed amending Directive (together with the results of its evaluation of AIFMD) in November 2021, there have been ongoing discussions between the European...more

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