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Conyers Investment Funds Report | Q1 2025

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This inaugural edition of the Conyers Investment Funds Report presents a variety of updates and insights relevant to the investment funds space in the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda. The report provides...more

Carey Olsen

Why the Cayman Islands continues to be a popular jurisdiction for offshore funds

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Over the past 25 years, the Cayman Islands have established themselves as a leading jurisdiction for alternative investment funds, with nearly 13,000 regulated open-ended funds and over 17,000 regulated closed-ended funds. As...more

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment

ESG in 2025: Finding the Sweet Spot in a Complex World

With ESG regulation now well embedded across all major jurisdictions, the trend we see for 2025 is about increasingly sophisticated triangulation by private fund managers between the regimes that apply by default (such as...more

Goodwin

Pillar II in Luxembourg: What Investment Funds Need to Know

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The implementation of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD’s) Pillar II rules in Europe, and in the Luxembourg law on 22 December 2023 (the Pillar II Law) in particular, has been a major...more

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2025 SEC Exam Priorities for Investment Advisers and Registered Investment Companies

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On October 21, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) Division of Examinations (Division) released its examination priorities for 2025, outlining the key topics the Division plans to focus on in the upcoming fiscal...more

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The Power of Genuine Networking for Entrepreneurs With OneSixOne Ventures with Pablo Casilimas and Justis Mendez

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How integral are networking and community-building to becoming a successful entrepreneur? Pablo Casilimas and Justis Mendez of OneSixOne Ventures join Founder Shares to discuss how they harnessed the power of these strategies...more

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Regulatory & Risk Advisory Review: Cayman Islands - April to June 2024

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Welcome to the second instalment of 2024 of the Regulatory & Risk Advisory Review. In this edition we cover several Cayman Islands regulatory updates including updates to the Beneficial Ownership Transparency Act, the...more

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[Podcast] Private Market Talks: Navigating PE Realization and Structuring Products for Wealthy Individuals with Hg Capital

In this episode, we’re joined by Steven Batchelor and Martina Sanow of Hg Capital, one of the largest and most successful private equity firms in the world. Specializing in technology, financial services software, and...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Update (2): The NY LLC Transparency Act and Corporate Transparency Act’s Impact on Private Fund Managers

In the weeks since publishing our original alert, FinCEN released several frequently asked questions (FAQs) on the application of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). Private fund managers are likely to find two of these...more

Goodwin

Horizon Scan for Private Investment Funds: Key Recent and Expected Funds, Regulatory, and Tax Developments to Look Out For

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Welcome to the third edition of our Horizon Scan, where we focus on some of the principal recent and expected developments and changes that we expect to be of interest to those in the private funds and investment management...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

OSC Publishes Annual Compliance Report for Dealers, Advisers and Investment Fund Managers for 2022-2023

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The Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”) recently released its annual Summary Report for Dealers, Advisers and Investment Fund Managers (the “Report”), prepared by the Compliance and Registrant Regulation Branch, for the...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

AML Best Practices for Private Funds: Red Flags and Responses for Private Funds

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U.S. hedge funds, private equity funds, and venture capital funds (collectively, the Private Funds)2 and their U.S. general partners, sponsors, and managers (Advisers) are not directly subject to the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

SEC Recordkeeping v. Privacy: Recent Opinion Stirs Debate

In 2018, an investment professional sued the firm he co-founded for wrongful termination and federal privacy law violations associated with the former employer’s remote accessing into a desktop computer it had purchased for...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Navigating BEA and Clayton Act Section 8 Compliance and Enforcement Actions for Private Equity Firms and Fund Managers

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Private equity firms and fund managers continue to see an increase in regulatory action from the federal government. On the heels of the rapidly approaching deadline for BE-12 filing and the DOJ's increased use of Section 8...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Material Investment Management Developments and Template Annual Compliance Checklists for Registered Investment Advisers, Exempt...

Lowenstein Sandler’s Investment Management Group is pleased to provide you with the summaries and checklists described below. Summaries of recent legal developments with respect to: •SEC’s 2023 Examination Priorities- ...more

Goodwin

FCA ESG Rules: The Next Deadline for U.K. Private Fund Managers

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In our previous client alert, Back to Work: The FCA's 2022-23 Priorities for Private Fund Managers, we mentioned the need for FCA-authorised private fund managers with assets under management (AuM) of over £5 billion and who...more

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Federal Court Authorizes Service of John Doe Summons Seeking Cryptocurrency User Identities

Back in 2005 when I was a trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice, I worked to enforce the John Doe summons on PayPal, Inc. in the federal district court in the Northern District of California, which summons...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Reading the Not-So-Subtle Tea Leaves: What the SEC Is Likely to Do Next in Crypto, and How Crypto Participants Should Prepare

It is highly likely, and hardly a surprise, that in the near future the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") will increase the number of enforcement actions it brings against crypto industry participants. It is...more

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

It Ain’t Easy Being Green: Raising Funds in the Age of Decarbonization and Electrification

Any fund manager that has raised capital in the last 10 years will tell you that environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles have gained increased prominence with investors globally. But has ESG given rise to a new...more

Alston & Bird

Investment Management, Trading & Markets – Secondaries Update – Q4 2021

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Welcome to Alston & Bird’s second quarterly update on the secondaries market. In this issue, we share insights on real estate secondaries, GP consent trends, current market updates (courtesy of M20 for this issue), and news...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Private Fund Managers Should Prepare for New ESG-Related Regulatory Obligations

The list of events for which 2020 will be remembered continues to grow and we are only two thirds of the way through the year. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have come into focus in the financial community,...more

Goodwin

Luxembourg Funds – Options for Non-EU Managers

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Many managers identify and assess the key legal and commercial costs and benefits of AIFMD passports as well as the short- and long-term regulatory and operational implications of the management of the fund by an EU-based...more

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment

UK’s Financial Conduct Authority Warns That Fund Managers Are at Increased Risk of Cyber Attacks

With 46% of UK business reporting a cyber attack during 2019/2020 and 32% reporting at least one a week – see the UK Government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2020 – the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has issued a...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Fund Managers and Family Offices Get Some Clarity on Carried Interests with Issuance of Proposed Treasury Regulations

On August 14, 2020, the IRS published Proposed Treasury Regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) under Section 1061 of the Internal Revenue Code to close the “carried interest loop hole” through which managers of investment...more

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Fund Manager Tried (And Failed) To Obtain Investors By Lying About Other Investors’ Participation

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The SEC recently brought and settled an action against a former wannabe fund manager, who lied to prospective investors that he already had raised millions of dollars in the fund from other (fictitious) investors. The fund...more

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