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In this episode of PE Pathways, Thao Le, a partner in the firm's Private Equity practice, hosts a discussion with Partners Josh Gelfand and Thomas Gray. Josh is in the firm's Employee Benefits + Executive Compensation...more
On February 6, 2025, President Donald Trump met with Republican lawmakers to discuss budget priorities, proposing to end carried interest. On the same day, Democrats introduced bills in both the House and the Senate that...more
For a majority of PE, VC, and debt funds, catch-ups are 100%, but they are likely to be less than 100% for real estate and infrastructure funds. In a previous article, we showed that hurdle rates set by private...more
Hedge Funds and Taxes - Hedge funds provide a vehicle to pool private capital for investment in stocks, securities and financial derivatives. While hedge funds take on many different structures—including master-feeder,...more
Following the enactment last year of the Limited Partnership Fund Ordinance, which has seen strong take up in its first eight months of operation, the new tax concession on carried interest earned from the activities of...more
Hong Kong’s private funds industry is on the verge of benefitting from further significant changes in local laws designed to make Hong Kong more attractive as a centre for private funds and their managers. On 31 August 2020,...more
On October 30, the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) published a comprehensive, Delaware-law based European style "fund as a whole" waterfall Model Limited Partnership Agreement (LPA) that can be used to...more
The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) recently published the third edition of the ILPA Principles (Principles 3.0). ILPA originally published the principles in 2009 to encourage discussion between general...more
In recent months, managers of private equity funds in the energy sector have been facing a scenario they likely never imagined: having to return millions of dollars of their “carried interest” earnings back to investors....more
In a traditional private equity fund, the fund managers will raise money from investors to establish a pool of capital the fund can then use to invest in a number of portfolio companies. A big benefit of a fund is that the...more
On July 8, the Right Honourable George Osborne MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced measures in his Summer Budget to abolish what is commonly known as the “base cost shift” as applied to sums received by individuals...more