People Moves

The firm's in-house fund administration services will now be offered to third party fund managers.

A recent ruling from the UK Takeover Panel suggests that private equity firms will find it hard to abort a public-to-private on the basis of a ‘material adverse change.’

Hedge funds must now register as investment advisers. Are private equity funds next?

Vehicular taxicide 2006-01-01 Staff Writer Although the mighty limited partnership has some challengers, its powerful formula for aligning interests appears to make it unstoppable as a mode of business organization.<br /><br />After taking over the private equity industry, the limited partnership

Political giving is good, but the road to bad publicity and regulatory change is often paved with well intentioned campaign contributions. By David Snow

The European private equity market today is barely recognizable from that of a few years back - and yet terms and conditions, particularly regarding preferred return and carry, are in many cases failing to recognize this. By Ray Maxwell

As the wins and losses of private equity become more visible to - and influenced by - the public eye, GP firms are finding more reasons for keeping a communications crisis management strategy on hand. By Judy Kuan

Rather than using W&I insurance merely to minimize post-closure transactional risk, increasingly private equity investors are applying it as a risk management tool to gain a strategic advantage in M&A negotiations. By Judy Kuan

The management company advisory board is, to some, a vital aid to entering new markets, but to others an unnecessary luxury. By Andy Thomson

When a new private equity firm is born, a new back office system needs to grow up alongside it. Australia's Ironbridge Capital found this to be ‘extremely complex.’ By Andy Thomson