Nicholas Donato

The SEC has not yet made any final decision on wholly adopting international accounting standards but a long awaited working paper from the agency lists a number of requirements if the US were to do so.

Julie Canty and Carlos Schmidt mark the fifth and sixth Deloitte tax professionals to have left for ‘big four’ rival Ernst & Young in the past few months.

Baker & McKenzie has beefed up its Chicago practice by raiding rival firm Kirkland & Ellis while Dorsey & Whitney finds a new private equity chief.

Private equity lawyers parsing through the 104 page draft guidelines on remuneration policies under AIFM still wonder how carried interest should be treated.

In this excerpt from our 2012 Fund Administration and Technology Compendium, industry sources explain what LPs are really looking for when taking a walk through their GPs’ back offices.

In a FAQ section posted to its website the SEC warned certain funds able to take on large amounts of leverage will have to file as hedge funds while private equity lawyers provide PE Manager their own lines of advice.

The professional services firm has bolstered the ranks of its private equity services practice with the addition of James Ilaria, Matthew Miller and Jeff Shaffer.

Following the loss of Robert Kaplan, the SEC’s unit responsible for investigating private equity firms has identified two deputy heads from within its own ranks.

More private equity lawyers from defunct law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf continue to find new homes while Morrison & Foerster identifies the head of its New York private equity practice.

Sovereign wealth funds concerned with losing their tax-exempt status when making certain US private equity investments will find favour with relaxed IRS rules, but that gain may be lost under certain circumstances, warn legal sources.