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The Power of Genuine Networking for Entrepreneurs With OneSixOne Ventures with Pablo Casilimas and Justis Mendez

Hutchison PLLC on 8/14/2024

How integral are networking and community-building to becoming a successful entrepreneur? Pablo Casilimas and Justis Mendez of OneSixOne Ventures join Founder Shares to discuss how they harnessed the power of these strategies...more

Regulatory & Risk Advisory Review: Cayman Islands - April to June 2024

Conyers on 7/23/2024

Welcome to the second instalment of 2024 of the Regulatory & Risk Advisory Review. In this edition we cover several Cayman Islands regulatory updates including updates to the Beneficial Ownership Transparency Act, the...more

[Podcast] Private Market Talks: Navigating PE Realization and Structuring Products for Wealthy Individuals with Hg Capital

Proskauer - Private Market Talks Podcast on 6/11/2024

In this episode, we’re joined by Steven Batchelor and Martina Sanow of Hg Capital, one of the largest and most successful private equity firms in the world. Specializing in technology, financial services software, and...more

Update (2): The NY LLC Transparency Act and Corporate Transparency Act’s Impact on Private Fund Managers

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 2/1/2024

In the weeks since publishing our original alert, FinCEN released several frequently asked questions (FAQs) on the application of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). Private fund managers are likely to find two of these...more

Horizon Scan for Private Investment Funds: Key Recent and Expected Funds, Regulatory, and Tax Developments to Look Out For

Goodwin on 10/3/2023

Welcome to the third edition of our Horizon Scan, where we focus on some of the principal recent and expected developments and changes that we expect to be of interest to those in the private funds and investment management...more

OSC Publishes Annual Compliance Report for Dealers, Advisers and Investment Fund Managers for 2022-2023

Stikeman Elliott LLP on 9/14/2023

The Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”) recently released its annual Summary Report for Dealers, Advisers and Investment Fund Managers (the “Report”), prepared by the Compliance and Registrant Regulation Branch, for the...more

AML Best Practices for Private Funds: Red Flags and Responses for Private Funds

Lowenstein Sandler LLP on 7/26/2023

U.S. hedge funds, private equity funds, and venture capital funds (collectively, the Private Funds)2 and their U.S. general partners, sponsors, and managers (Advisers) are not directly subject to the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970...more

SEC Recordkeeping v. Privacy: Recent Opinion Stirs Debate

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 4/27/2023

In 2018, an investment professional sued the firm he co-founded for wrongful termination and federal privacy law violations associated with the former employer’s remote accessing into a desktop computer it had purchased for...more

Navigating BEA and Clayton Act Section 8 Compliance and Enforcement Actions for Private Equity Firms and Fund Managers

Proskauer Rose LLP on 4/7/2023

Private equity firms and fund managers continue to see an increase in regulatory action from the federal government. On the heels of the rapidly approaching deadline for BE-12 filing and the DOJ's increased use of Section 8...more

Material Investment Management Developments and Template Annual Compliance Checklists for Registered Investment Advisers, Exempt...

Lowenstein Sandler LLP on 4/7/2023

Lowenstein Sandler’s Investment Management Group is pleased to provide you with the summaries and checklists described below. Summaries of recent legal developments with respect to: •SEC’s 2023 Examination Priorities- ...more

FCA ESG Rules: The Next Deadline for U.K. Private Fund Managers

Goodwin on 10/18/2022

In our previous client alert, Back to Work: The FCA's 2022-23 Priorities for Private Fund Managers, we mentioned the need for FCA-authorised private fund managers with assets under management (AuM) of over £5 billion and who...more

Federal Court Authorizes Service of John Doe Summons Seeking Cryptocurrency User Identities

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 8/23/2022

Back in 2005 when I was a trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice, I worked to enforce the John Doe summons on PayPal, Inc. in the federal district court in the Northern District of California, which summons...more

Reading the Not-So-Subtle Tea Leaves: What the SEC Is Likely to Do Next in Crypto, and How Crypto Participants Should Prepare

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 7/28/2022

It is highly likely, and hardly a surprise, that in the near future the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") will increase the number of enforcement actions it brings against crypto industry participants. It is...more

It Ain’t Easy Being Green: Raising Funds in the Age of Decarbonization and Electrification

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP on 6/24/2022

Any fund manager that has raised capital in the last 10 years will tell you that environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles have gained increased prominence with investors globally. But has ESG given rise to a new...more

Investment Management, Trading & Markets – Secondaries Update – Q4 2021

Alston & Bird on 12/29/2021

Welcome to Alston & Bird’s second quarterly update on the secondaries market. In this issue, we share insights on real estate secondaries, GP consent trends, current market updates (courtesy of M20 for this issue), and news...more

Private Fund Managers Should Prepare for New ESG-Related Regulatory Obligations

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 9/15/2020

The list of events for which 2020 will be remembered continues to grow and we are only two thirds of the way through the year. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have come into focus in the financial community,...more

Luxembourg Funds – Options for Non-EU Managers

Goodwin on 9/10/2020

Many managers identify and assess the key legal and commercial costs and benefits of AIFMD passports as well as the short- and long-term regulatory and operational implications of the management of the fund by an EU-based...more

UK’s Financial Conduct Authority Warns That Fund Managers Are at Increased Risk of Cyber Attacks

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment on 8/28/2020

With 46% of UK business reporting a cyber attack during 2019/2020 and 32% reporting at least one a week – see the UK Government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2020 – the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has issued a...more

Fund Managers and Family Offices Get Some Clarity on Carried Interests with Issuance of Proposed Treasury Regulations

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP on 8/25/2020

On August 14, 2020, the IRS published Proposed Treasury Regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) under Section 1061 of the Internal Revenue Code to close the “carried interest loop hole” through which managers of investment...more

Fund Manager Tried (And Failed) To Obtain Investors By Lying About Other Investors’ Participation

Fox Rothschild LLP on 4/24/2020

The SEC recently brought and settled an action against a former wannabe fund manager, who lied to prospective investors that he already had raised millions of dollars in the fund from other (fictitious) investors. The fund...more

Investment Management Roundtable Discussion – Data Privacy and Security

Troutman Pepper on 1/10/2020

Gregory J. Nowak, a partner and practice leader for hedge funds in Pepper Hamilton’s Private Fund Services Practice Group, hosts a series of candid, interactive webinar discussions for West LegalEdcenter on what is going on...more

Private Fund Developments: 2019 New York Investment Management Conference

K&L Gates LLP on 12/17/2019

DEVELOPMENTS IN SEEDING ARRANGEMENTS – OVERVIEW - - Seeding Arrangements Fall Along a Spectrum, with Features Including: - Making a Significant Capital Commitment to a Fund Manager at the Initial Closing of the Fund -...more

The FCA’s first competition law fines – what can we learn?

BCLP on 3/5/2019

On 21 February 2019, the FCA issued its first competition law infringement decision since it was given competition law powers on 1 April 2015. Three asset management firms were found to have shared strategic information...more

WSJ Article on Geolocation Data Highlights Risks for Fund Managers

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment on 11/7/2018

On Friday, the WSJ published an article detailing how companies are monetizing smartphone location data by selling it to hedge fund clients. The data vendor featured in the WSJ article obtains geolocation data from about...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - May 2017

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 6/3/2017

In this edition of our Privacy and Cybersecurity Update, we take a look at the Trump administration's executive order outlining its cybersecurity plans, Acting FTC Chairwoman Maureen Ohlhausen's comments on the possible...more

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