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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Striking a Balance January 2025 - Getting the Balance Right – Lender Controls Over Eligible Investments in NAV Facilities

Introduction - NAV facilities operate by taking a portfolio of assets owned by a borrower and selecting which assets within that portfolio a lender is willing to lend against. This pool of approved assets becomes the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Public Investment in US Professional Sports: Opportunities and Challenges

The financial landscape of United States professional sports is rapidly evolving. Soaring team valuations, lucrative media rights deals, growing portfolios of ancillary assets and expanding global fanbases have reshaped the...more

Proskauer - Private Market Talks Podcast

[Podcast] Private Market Talks: Unlocking the Potential of Alternative Markets with HighVista Strategies’ Raphi Schorr

Two decades ago, HighVista Strategies set out to transform alternative investing by tapping into less efficient markets in search of alpha. Today, with $11 billion under management, the firm remains at the forefront of...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Former CIO Indicted for $600M Fraud in Parallel DOJ, SEC Actions

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On November 25, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC, and collectively with DOJ, the Government) brought parallel criminal and civil enforcement actions against the...more

Proskauer - Private Market Talks Podcast

Scoping Out Secondaries with Portfolio Advisors' Liz Campbell

In this episode, we are thrilled to be joined by Liz Campbell, Chief Investment Officer at Portfolio Advisors, a global private asset manager specializing in the US middle market. Together with its parent company FS...more

Proskauer - Private Market Talks Podcast

[Podcast] Private Market Talks: Scoping Out Secondaries with Portfolio Advisor’s Liz Campbell

In this episode, we are thrilled to be joined by Liz Campbell, Chief Investment Officer at Portfolio Advisors, a global private asset manager specializing in the US middle market. Together with its parent company FS...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Golden Seeds 20 Years Later: The Legacy of the Wall Street Women Who Built the Largest Angel Network That Invests in Women

Golden Seeds is celebrating its 20th year of investing in promising women-led companies. Since its founding in 2004, Golden Seeds has become one of the largest angel networks in the country and is, by far, the largest that...more

Dechert LLP

PE Firms Prepare to Navigate Market Uncertainty After U.S. Election

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31% of North American respondents believe that the Republican victory in November’s U.S. presidential election has the potential to boost portfolios, particularly for North American firms. Donald Trump’s victory in...more

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Agility in Action: PE Firms Turn to GP-Led Secondaries for Liquidity and Portfolio Optimization

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82% of respondents expect secondaries activity levels to remain buoyant or increase in the next two years following 4x growth in the past five years. The slowdown in exits and fundraisings seen over the last year is...more

Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP

CFTC Adopts Amendments to Regulation 4.7

In early September, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) adopted amendments to CFTC Regulation 4.7 (“Regulation 4.7”), which is a compliance exemption from certain disclosure, reporting and recordkeeping...more

Seward & Kissel LLP

Multi-Strat Funds: Structuring Considerations

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In a typical multi-strategy fund (“Multi-Strat”), a fund structure is established by an investment manager (the “Investment Manager”) that runs multiple investment strategy portfolios within it, oftentimes with different...more

K&L Gates LLP

Europe: Publication of Irish Funds Sector 2030 Report

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Following a review of the Irish funds industry and wide engagement with industry participants, discussed in our earlier blog here, the Department of Finance has issued its Final Report on the Funds Sector 2030. The report...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Next Stop: Charlotte October 2024 - Underwriting Secondaries Deals

The market for financing pools of interests in private equity funds and private credit funds continues to sizzle, with new lenders joining the market and competition on pricing leading to a tightening of spreads for the most...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Inside NAV Loans October 2024 - What’s in a NAV Loan?

The purpose of this article is to unpack the basic building blocks of what constitutes a NAV Loan to make sure that market participants have a basic understanding of what is in a NAV Loan and their key negotiated issues. As...more

Carlton Fields

Tontine Takeoff? Old Concept Gets New Wings

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“Tontines” are a very old form of investment, and there have been many variations. The basic idea is that the longest surviving investors in tontines will be credited with tontine assets attributable to investors who...more

Carey Olsen

Cayman Islands investment funds

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Over the past 25 years, the Cayman Islands has become a pre-eminent jurisdiction for the formation of alternative investment funds, with around 13,000 regulated open-ended funds and 16,000 regulated closed-ended funds. The...more

Mayer Brown

Preparing for a buy-in: selling illiquid investments

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In the latest of our quarterly webinars, we looked at selling illiquid investments in preparation for a buy-in, including...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

“You Promised What?!” Warranties and Disclosure in the UK and the U.S.

Determining “certainty of asset” is a key element of any investment. When an investor takes a minority position as it does in a typical venture or growth capital investment, the approach to ascertaining certainty differs...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

CFTC Finalizes Long-Awaited Update to Rule 4.7

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On September 12, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) published a final rule, adopting amendments to CFTC Rule 4.7, which provides exemptive relief from certain compliance obligations to registered...more

Alston & Bird

CFTC Amends Regulation 4.7, Increasing Dollar Threshold for QEP Qualification and Codifying Monthly Reporting Option for Funds of...

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Our Investment Funds Group examines how the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has amended Regulation 4.7 to increase investor suitability standards and provide additional flexibility for funds-of-funds reporting....more

Mintz Edge

VC Funds Warehousing Investments: Traps for the Unwary

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One of the challenges facing venture capital firms is how to handle investments in portfolio companies prior to the initial close (“Initial Close”) of a new fund (“New Fund”). Typically, the investment advisor (“VC Advisor”),...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

The Money Market Reform in Israel is Underway

The Knesset approved a series of legislative amendments this past July designed to promote competition in the money market – money market mutual funds, deposits and government bonds (short-term loans maturing in less than one...more

Mayer Brown

The Intersection of NAV and Margin Loans: Single Asset and Concentrated Asset Pools

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Executive Summary - Over the last several years, a need has arisen in the fund finance market, which caters to private equity, venture capital, family offices, and other investment funds (“Funds”) and their sponsors, for...more

SEC Compliance Consultants, Inc. (SEC³)

How Much Testing is Enough?

Most compliance officers struggle to determine whether they are conducting enough testing to satisfy their obligations under the Advisers Act. In its release adopting Advisers Act Rule 206(4)-7, the SEC stated that an...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Founder Friendly Funding: The State of the Venture Markets

Based on data in Carta’s recently published State of the Markets report, the venture markets have experienced a slight uptick in number of deals and in dollars raised quarter-over-quarter. Companies on Carta’s platform...more

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