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Carlton Fields

Everyday Investor Participation in Private Strategies: What Role for Investor Advocate in SEC Drama?

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The SEC is under pressure to increase direct or indirect participation by everyday “retail” investors (consisting primarily of those who do not qualify as “accredited investors” under SEC Regulation D) in certain investment...more

King & Spalding

The Capital Market Authority Issues Key Regulatory Enhancements Impacting Investment Funds in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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On 9 July 2025, the Capital Market Authority (the “CMA”) has announced a series of significant regulatory enhancements aimed at furthering the development of the Kingdom’s investment fund industry. These amendments, effective...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Co-Investment Relief a Step to Retail Access to Registered Funds

On March 4, 2025, the Investment Company Institute (ICI) wrote to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to express its support of a request for co-investment exemptive relief by an applicant and urge that the SEC grant...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

SEC Explores Regulatory Changes to Make It Easier to Raise Capital, Invest in Private Funds, and Be a Public Company

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The Acting SEC Chairman announced regulatory priorities designed to help companies raise capital, widen investment options available to retail investors, and reduce regulatory burdens on smaller public companies....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Fund Finance Around the World February 2025 - Around the (Fund Finance) World in Eight Topics!

With just over two weeks to go until the global fund finance community gathers in Miami, the time seems apt to revisit some topics that bankers and attorneys encounter in some commonly seen non-US fund finance jurisdictions....more

Stinson LLP

SEC Enhances Regulation of Private Fund Advisers

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On August 23, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to adopt new rules and amendments under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (Advisers Act) to the regulation of private fund advisers (Final Rule). The...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

2023 SEC Rulemaking Priorities for Investment Advisers

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In 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) proposed numerous new and amended rules (“proposals”) that would apply to SEC-registered investment advisers (“Registered Advisers”), including private fund...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Proposal Significantly Impacts Private Fund Advisers and Investors

On February 9, 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) voted to propose a suite of new rules and amendments (the “Proposal”) under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Advisers Act”). If...more

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Protecting the Protected: SEC Proposes New Safeguards for Private Fund Investors

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The Securities and Exchange Commission just proposed new rules to protect investors in private investment funds. The proposed rules would require private fund advisers to disclose certain information and avoid certain...more

Nossaman LLP

ILPA Publishes Highly Anticipated Deal by Deal Model LPA Agreement

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The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) released a Model Limited Partnership Agreement (LPA) for general partners (GPs) and limited partners (LPs) structuring private fund investment transactions in October...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

SFC (the “Commission”) Expresses Concern over Irregularities in Asset Management Activities

•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

Foley & Lardner LLP

A Compilation of Enforcement and Non-Enforcement Actions

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Non-Enforcement - SEC Decides Against Mounting an Appeal in Koch Ruling - The July 2015 ruling by the D.C. Circuit Court in Koch v. SEC will apparently not be challenged by the SEC. The Court ruled in that...more

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