Legal/Compliance

Legal expenses can be expansive and opaque. Regulatory Compliance Watch’s Carl Ayers looks at what a GP can do to keep legal bills under control.

Lawyers from Groom Law Group explain the regulatory challenge to getting 401k investors into private funds and how it can be addressed.

When the SEC released details of its settlement with Veronis Suhler Stevenson last year, the secondaries community took note.

In this extract from The LPA Anatomised, Adam Turtle, Rede Partners, and Emma Cleveland, Cleveland & Co Associates, discuss carry models and GP commitments.

Distribution and negotiation are two key aspects in the economic provisions of any limited partnership agreement. Howard Beber, Scott Jones and Andrew Shore of Proskauer lay out the terminology.

A survey by our sister publication Buyouts Insider and Gen II found expertise in similar funds and firms was crucial.

Proskauer’s Josh Newville and Tim Mungovan talk through the key legal risks facing private equity in 2019.

The passing of FIRRMA changes the scope of CFIUS and could have implications for US and non-US private equity funds. Simon Witney and Jeffrey Cunard of Debevoise explain.

In the wake of the Theranos scandal, some managers fret that if their own unicorns fail to meet expectations, investors may resort to litigation. It’s unlikely, but possible.

A snapshot of law firms' secondaries work in 2018 by volume, deal count, strategy and more from sister publication Secondaries Investor's annual survey.