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Dark Side of the Moon
In July 2025 HM Treasury and the Home Office issued the UK National Risk Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 2025 ('NRA 2025'), while the European Banking Authority (EBA) published its fifth Opinion on...more
ESMA has recently recommended notable amendments to the UCITS Eligible Assets Directive, which sets the standards for permissible investments by UCITS funds across Europe. These reforms could redefine permissible investment...more
On 26 June 2025, ESMA published its keenly awaited technical advice to the Commission on the review of the UCITS Eligible Assets Directive 2007/16/EC (EAD). The report assesses EAD implementation across member states and...more
Guernsey has established itself as a sophisticated, stable jurisdiction for the structuring of alternative investment funds and bespoke vehicles. Among its suite of offerings, Guernsey permits the formation of unregulated...more
The growth of High Net Worth Individual (“HNWI”) allocations to alternative investments is a hot topic in fund finance. In what is widely acknowledged to be a challenging fundraising environment, fund managers have focused...more
A majority of private fund managers set the clawback limit at 25%, but they calculate the clawback differently depending on fund type. Limited partner (LP) clawback provisions enable fund managers to call back previously...more
Spring is a time of renewal, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)–under its new chairman, Paul Atkins–has shown that. On 12 June 2025, the SEC withdrew 14 proposed rules impacting funds and asset managers,...more
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published its final report containing revised recommendations for liquidity risk management for collective investment schemes (CIS), accompanied by...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published findings of its review of smaller asset managers and alternatives business models, together with a press release. The review formed part of the FCA's alternatives...more
The increase in the use of fund finance by private equity is carrying over into the infrastructure fund space, with managers using net asset value and back-leverage facilities to unlock liquidity for investors and portfolio...more
The NAIC Spring National Meeting was held in Indianapolis from March 23-26, 2025. This update reports on some highlights of the Spring National Meeting sessions relating to insurance company investments....more
On February 26, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) wrote to Chief Executives in the asset management and alternatives sector to set out their current supervision priorities (the Portfolio Letter)....more
Private credit, or funding provided by non-bank lenders, has expanded significantly, becoming a $1.7 trillion global industry. Many market participants anticipate continued growth, with conservative estimates projecting an...more
The ESMA Consultation Paper on draft regulatory technical standards on open-ended loan-originating AIFs (OE LO AIFs) under the AIFMD, published on the 12 December 2024, aims to set out the requirements which OE LO AIFs must...more
On 26 February 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a portfolio letter (Letter) explaining its supervision priorities for the asset management and alternatives portfolios....more
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a press release confirming the launch of a Common Supervisory Action (CSA) with national competent authorities on compliance...more
Private fund managers “recycle” capital — i.e., reinvest capital that would otherwise be returned to investors or to recall distributions already made — to maximize their investment capacity. ...more
The significant growth in life & annuity reinsurance in the Cayman Islands has showed no signs of slowing in the past few years and a material ingredient of this growth is Cayman reinsurers sponsored by large private equity /...more
NEW YORK and LONDON, February 3, 2025 – Leading international law firm Proskauer today shared its 2025 Trends in Private Credit report, highlighting market participants’ strong belief that 2025 is expected to be an exciting...more
In an increasingly upbeat M&A market, use cases could grow for this popular and dynamic fund finance product. Net asset value (NAV) financing became firmly established as a core fund financing tool in the last few years as...more
On 22 November 2024, the Department of Finance ("DoF") launched its public consultation on the exercise of the national discretions in Directive (EU) 2024/927 amending AIFMD (2011/61/EU) and the UCITS Directive (2009/65/EC),...more
In a typical multi-strategy fund (“Multi-Strat”), a fund structure is established by an investment manager (the “Investment Manager”) that runs multiple investment strategy portfolios within it, oftentimes with different...more
In our recent alert Loan Origination Under AIFMD2: A Guide, on loan origination under the revised Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD2), we noted that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)...more
There has been considerable discussion in the market over the last 12 months about how lenders can increase liquidity and manage the risks that can arise through over-exposure to a particular sponsor, sector or product....more
•The Commission has identified a number of regulatory concerns with respect to private funds and discretionary accounts, in particular, funds with concentrated, illiquid and interconnected investments. •The Commission has...more