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Ropes & Gray LLP

[Podcast] Navigating the SEC's New Marketing Rule FAQ Guidance

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On this Ropes & Gray podcast, Alyssa Horton and Colleen Meyer, both counsel in the private funds regulatory group, explore the recent SEC staff guidance on the Marketing Rule. They discuss the new FAQs issued on March 19,...more

Seward & Kissel LLP

Shortening the Capital Raising Process

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We have recently witnessed a noticeable lengthening of the time needed to close on an institutional investor’s fund allocation. Anecdotally, the typical time frame to close on an institutional investor allocation appears to...more

Paul Hastings LLP

SEC Updates Marketing Rule and Form PF FAQs in Short Succession

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On March 19, the SEC issued updates to its FAQs regarding compliance with Rule 206(4)-1 of the Advisers Act (the Marketing Rule) addressing (i) when gross and net performance are required for certain “extracted” performance,...more

McGuireWoods LLP

SEC Updates Marketing Rule FAQs to Provide Additional Performance Presentation Flexibility

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On March 19, 2025, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) updated the FAQ page pertaining to Rule 206(4)-1 (the Marketing Rule) under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. The updated guidance permits...more

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SEC staff releases guidance relaxing certain aspects of marketing and fundraising

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The Division of Investment Management of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) released new guidance on March 19, 2025 that replaces and relaxes prior guidance for registered investment advisers (RIAs) with...more

Morgan Lewis

SEC Staff Issues Updated Marketing Rule FAQs

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SEC Staff published new guidance providing private fund managers and other investment advisers with flexibility to use extracted performance and portfolio/investment characteristics in marketing materials, without cumbersome...more

Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC

SEC’s 2025 Examination Priorities

On November 21, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its examination priorities for 2025. The release offers critical insights into the areas that the SEC will focus on....more

Walkers

Jersey Funds Law SeriesJ: Jersey Managers and Funds Marketing into Europe and the UK

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As Jersey is considered from a UK and an EU perspective to be a "third country", it is outside the scope of full compliance with the AIFMD and can take advantage of the NPPR marketing routes. A Jersey domiciled AIFM will...more

Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints

Energy & Sustainability Litigation Updates - August 2023

Public media reports have stated that the SEC’s Enforcement Division has been “sen[ding] document requests, including subpoenas” to asset managers in connection with ESG marketing. Apparently, these actions by the SEC’s...more

Paul Hastings LLP

SEC Issues Updated FAQ on Marketing Rule

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Recently published guidance by the SEC staff from the Division of Investment Management (the “Staff”) is likely to have a significant impact on marketing materials prepared by investment advisers marketing new private funds....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

ESMA Publishes Final Cross-Border Marketing Technical Standards

On 21 December 2022, ESMA published a final report in relation to draft technical standards for cross-border fund management activities and the cross-border marketing of investment funds within the EEA under the UCITS and...more

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Belgium - New guidance in relation to funds’ marketing communications

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A new Belgian Royal Decree and updated guidelines from the Belgian FSMA apply to funds’ marketing communications in Belgium. A Belgian Royal Decree aimed at transposing EU Delegated Directive 2021/1270 of 21 April 2021...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

ESMA Guidelines on marketing communications for funds will start to apply

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On 2 February 2022, the new ESMA guidelines on marketing communications under the Regulation on cross-border distribution of funds (EU) 2019/1156) (“Guidelines”) will start to apply....more

K&L Gates LLP

The SEC's Modernized Marketing Rule for Investment Advisers

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On 22 December 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments (the final rule) to Rule 206(4)-1 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the Advisers Act) to modernize the regulation of...more

Cooley LLP

Alert: The AIFMD For Non-EU Fund Managers: It's Probably Not As Bad You Think

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Many non-EU fund managers raising a non-EU alternative investment fund will accept a European investor on a "reverse solicitation" basis; but they won't "market" into Europe. This is often because the cost of complying with...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

New Fund Marketing Rules in Switzerland

Although Switzerland is not a European Union (EU) country, it implemented new fund marketing rules effective as of March 1, 2013, which operate in parallel to the EU’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive rules,...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Investment Management Legal + Regulatory Update -- July 2013

In This Issue: Regulatory Updates - SEC Proposes Money Market Reform; SEC Eases Ban on General Solicitation and General Advertising in Certain Private Placements; SEC and CFTC Adopt Joint Rules to Address...more

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