Legal/Compliance

Lawsuits were rare a decade ago, but an expanding and pressurized market is making disputes more common, claims lawyer.

Alexandra Poe, a private funds partner in the corporate practice of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed in New York, tells pfm about how she ended up in private equity law and the best week of her life

The largest European private equity vehicle ever raised is structured as a Jersey Expert Fund.

Three of the law firm’s existing partners are joining the new office, which will have a focus on private equity.

Daniel Dusek has joined Kirkland & Ellis in Hong Kong as a partner.

The Sullivan & Cromwell private equity partner will succeed Mary Jo White as head of the US regulatory agency.

Fund managers may be placing themselves at a disadvantage by pulling back their compliance efforts, an asset management lawyer says.

Following a slew of hiring in 2016, Proskauer kicked off the new year with the hiring of a partner from King & Wood Mallesons.

SEC veteran Heather Seidel will become acting director of the division of trading and markets, while an enforcement division legal duo will be interim co-heads of litigation.

European financial rules are unlikely to change in the immediate future, as the regulator waits for the dust to settle on measures introduced over the past five years.