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Preparing for ETFs as a Share Class: Updated and Expanded as of June 11, 2025

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Introduction - On March 17, 2025, Ropes & Gray published a white paper describing the much-anticipated Share Class Relief 1 and outlining matters we believed Advisers and Boards may want to consider in connection with...more

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Thinking ahead: Key considerations for winding up Guernsey investment funds

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The process of winding up a Guernsey fund involves several important considerations that boards, fund managers, investment advisers and administrators must navigate carefully. This article explores six aspects which we...more

K&L Gates LLP

What a Relief! Co-Investments Get Easier for Interval Funds, Tender Offer Funds, and Business Development Companies

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved a streamlined framework for co-investments involving certain closed-end funds and business development companies (together, Regulated Funds)....more

SEC Compliance Consultants, Inc. (SEC³)

A New Era for Co-Investments?

The SEC just proposed major updates that could make life easier for BDCs, closed-end funds, and their advisers when it comes to co-investing. Under the proposed relief granted to FS Credit Opportunities Corp., the SEC is...more

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SEC Signals Adoption of Innovative Co-Investment Exemptive Relief

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The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management (SEC) recently issued public notices indicating its imminent decision to grant several applications for a new form of exemptive relief for certain...more

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SEC Releases Annual Registered Investment Company Update

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Who may be interested: Registered Investment Companies; Registered Investment Advisers; Boards of Directors; Portfolio Managers. Quick Take: The staff of the SEC’s Division of Investment Management (Staff) published its...more

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SEC Notices Simplified Co-Investment Relief: A Sigh of Some Relief for Regulated Funds and Their Affiliates

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On April 3, 2025, the SEC filed a notice of intent to grant FS Credit Opportunities Corp. et. al.’s (“FS”)1 amended application for an order permitting certain business development companies (“BDCs”) and closed-end management...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

April Welcomes More Flexible Co-Investment Exemptive Relief Under the Investment Company Act of 1940

On April 3, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved an exemptive application1 that allows for a more flexible co-investment transaction approval process. This new relief simplifies the process followed by...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Court Upholds Legality of Poison Pills for Closed-End Funds but Limits Successive Plans

On March 28, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) held that it was legal under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (1940 Act) for a closed-end fund to use a shareholder rights plan...more

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Registering Private Funds with CIMA

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All Cayman entities that fall within the definition of “private fund” in the Private Funds Act (2021 Revision) are required to register with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA)....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Who’s the Boss? The CFIUS “Control” Definition for Global Venture Capital Funds

My VC Fund has U.S. and non-U.S. General Partners, will I need to file CFIUS declarations for every investment I want to make in tech, in infrastructure, or in a company with customers’ personal data? This is a critical...more

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SEC Staff Relaxes Certain In-Person Board Voting Requirements for Registered Investment Companies

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The SEC’s Division of Investment Management has relaxed certain in-person voting requirements for fund boards, subject to certain conditions, in a no-action letter to the Independent Directors Council (the IDC) issued on...more

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