Nicholas Donato
Martha Vorlicek, chief operating officer of HarbourVest and one of the founding members of the PECFOA, becomes the fifth recipient of the award.
Comprehensive research into the private equity CFO role reveals a shift away from traditional functions like tax in order to free time for more thought-intensive duties like investor relations and capturing meaningful portfolio data.
The former CFO of Napier Park Global Capital will oversee the New York firm’s finances.
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Private firms were provided a less burdensome accounting alternative for measuring intangible assets in a business combination.
Investors don’t believe more women staffers will help returns, but do believe it benefits the firm’s internal team dynamics, Coller Capital’s latest LP survey found.
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The battle for sensible fair value auditing isn’t over yet. But to win it, CFOs need to convince the PCAOB that deriving fair value requires a little more intuition, and a little less math.
Following new rulemaking from FASB, private equity firms may no longer need certain portfolio companies to apply the pushdown accounting method post-acquisition.
In the wake of relaxed marketing rules, the US’ association for state securities regulators named private placement offerings one of the biggest risks to investors.
Mitchell Presser begins his role as Freshfields’ top US M&A lawyer; Gary Li leaves Ropes for rival law firm; and other private fund lawyer moves.
The FASB is expected to remove a requirement that investors disclose their private fund interests within a complicated fair value hierarchy.