For the investment teams of pension funds, endowment funds, family offices and similar institutional investors investing in private funds, barely a week goes by without their inboxes filling up with a long election booklet...more
Private equity funds have, in the past, run dual track exit processes in which an exit by way of initial public offering (“IPO”) or direct auction sale have been simultaneously pursued. Whilst the IPO markets are, for the...more
The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) released considerations for both limited partners (LPs) and general partners (GPs) in respect of continuation fund transactions, including GP-led secondaries, in May 2023....more
On 2 May 2019, the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC"), the agency responsible for enforcing economic sanctions, published "A Framework for OFAC Compliance Commitments" (the "Framework") which outlines...more
7/3/2019
/ Cooperative Compliance Regime ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Failure to Comply ,
Foreign Policy ,
Foreign Relations ,
Framework Agreement ,
Fund Managers ,
Internal Controls ,
Investment Funds ,
Investment Management ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Private Equity ,
Risk Assessment ,
Sanction Violations
GP-led Fund Restructurings have become an increasingly important part of the private equity secondaries market, accounting for 40% of 2018's US$70 billion secondaries activity according to ILPA....more
Identifying Bribery and Corruption risk in the context of private equity investments (and M&A more generally) is key to ensuring the value of an acquisition. Companies will busy themselves with due diligence on tax,...more
Identifying Bribery and Corruption risk in the context of private equity investments (and M&A more generally) is key to ensuring the value of an acquisition. Companies will busy themselves with due diligence on tax,...more
A number of very significant changes are being made to the UK anti-money laundering regime.
Of particular interest to the private equity industry will be the proposed new criminal offence of failure to prevent the...more
1/30/2017
/ AML/CFT ,
Banking Sector ,
Money Laundering ,
National Crime Agency (NCA) ,
Private Equity ,
Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) ,
Risk Assessment ,
Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) ,
Tax Evasion ,
UK ,
UK Bribery Act