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Further Reform for UK Private Fund Managers: The Government’s Road Map for Growth in Financial Services

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On 15 July 2025, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivered her Mansion House 2025 speech unveiling the Leeds Reforms, a programme for financial services reforms to drive investment and growth in the sector....more

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Negotiating Economics: What are the Different Advantages of Co-Investment for GPs and LPs?

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GPs are increasingly exploring formalised co-investment structures in a bid to secure management fees and carried interest. Co-investment activity has increased fivefold over the past two decades, hitting a record $33.2...more

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SEC Could Broaden Path to Private Equity Fund of Funds Investment

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Since the enactment of the Investment Company Act 85 years ago, the asset management industry has grown from $2 billion in assets to more than $39 trillion in assets. Under existing Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)...more

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Texas Federal Court Allows an ERISA Fiduciary Challenge Against Alleged "ESG Investing" Without Any ESG Funds

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On January 10, 2025, in Spence v. American Airlines, a federal district court in Texas ruled that American Airlines (the company) and the committee overseeing its 401(k) plans (the committee) breached their duty of loyalty...more

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Surprise. Nasdaq 100 survey shows demand for Nasdaq 100 fund

Nothing surprises me much anymore, neither should the results of the survey that a Nasdaq 100 survey supports the inclusion of Nasdaq 100 index funds....more

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UK Government Targets Reform of the Investment Manager Exemption

On 28 April 2025, the UK government published draft legislative amendments to: - Align the UK’s domestic tax rules on permanent establishments (PE) with the 2017 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)...more

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AML/CTF Asset Due Diligence Obligations: CSSF Provides Clarifications in an initial Q&A

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On 13 December 2024, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) published the first FAQ to assist professionals in the investment sector supervised, authorised, or registered by the CSSF in complying with...more

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Welcome to 2024: CWT’s European Fund Finance Market Insights - 2024 European Fund Finance Market Predictions

The year 2023 presented the fund finance industry with many challenges that it rose to face with an inventiveness and rigour that showed just how mature and multi-faceted the market has become. At Cadwalader in London we saw...more

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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

McDermott Will & Schulte

International News: Spotlight on ESG, Impact & Sustainability

ESG is understood to be an acronym for “environmental, social and governance,” but the term can be challenging because it’s used to describe similar but distinct communities of practice, including corporate social...more

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Private equity sponsors intensify focus on flexibility in portfolio company loan...

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As leveraged loan markets have been impacted by a challenging macroeconomic environment, private equity sponsors are sharpening their focus on flexibility in their portfolio companies’ loan documents Given the sharp...more

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Investment Management Update - April 2023

SEC Rules and Amendments - Liquidity Rule Amendments: Interval Funds to the Rescue? On November 2, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to propose significant amendments to Rule 22e-4 under the...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Missing Miami Already February 2023 | Issue No. 210 - Fund Finance Symposium Panel Recap: ‘Titans in Finance: The Rise of Private...

Coming off of the close of a badly bruised broadly syndicated loan market in 2022, it is no surprise that the global Fund Finance Association kicked off its 12th annual conference in Miami with a conversation with the “Titans...more

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Polishing Up the Crystal Ball December 2022 | Issue No. 204 - 2023 European Fund Finance Market Predictions

It’s that time of year again when conversations are dominated by reflections on our market’s performance over the last 12 months and expectations as to what 2023 will hold for our industry....more

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Investment Management, Trading & Markets Updates – November 2021

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SEC Chair’s Senate Committee Testimony on SEC Initiatives On October 5, 2021, SEC Chair Gary Gensler provided testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services. Several of the initiatives are of...more

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Funds and asset management regulatory news, November 2020

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COVID-19: EFAMA updates cyber-prevention standards for investment management companies - The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has published a document updating the International Investment Funds...more

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BDCs Benefit from the SEC’s New Fund of Funds Rule

On October 7, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted a new rule designed to streamline and enhance the regulatory framework for funds that invest in other funds (“fund of funds arrangements”).  The new...more

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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

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“Side Car” Funds – Solutions for Sourcing Capital

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Given the current market volatility resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, many fund sponsors are seeking additional sources of capital to protect and/or enhance their investment portfolios. There are many circumstances in...more

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[Webinar] How to Take Advantage of Distressed Assets or Company Opportunities - March 25th, 2:00 pm ET

Is your private equity firm or company invested in or thinking about investing in distressed assets or businesses? If so, you won’t want to miss this complimentary, 1-hour webinar on the nuts and bolts of distressed...more

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Investment Management Roundtable Discussion – Data Privacy and Security

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Gregory J. Nowak, a partner and practice leader for hedge funds in Pepper Hamilton’s Private Fund Services Practice Group, hosts a series of candid, interactive webinar discussions for West LegalEdcenter on what is going on...more

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Private Equity And Hedge Funds: Regulatory Analysis And Structural Overview

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Within the private equity fund arena, there are various well-recognized categories of private equity funds. Those funds include, among others: venture capital funds; leveraged buyout or merchant banking funds; hedge funds;...more

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Investment Management Update

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a new rule and related amendments designed to streamline and enhance the regulatory framework for "fund of funds" arrangements....more

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SEC Cyber Unit Increases Efforts to Regulate Crypto-Currency

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Based on how 2017 ended, entities and individuals in the crypto-currency markets should expect increased scrutiny from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in 2018. The SEC’s Cyber Unit commenced its...more

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Bitcoin and Blockchain: Certain U.S. Regulatory Considerations for Investment Managers

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Bitcoin is the first blockchain or distributed ledger technology (“DLT”) to successfully solve a problem succinctly described by Marc Andreessen: “Bitcoin gives us, for the first time, a way for one Internet user to transfer...more

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