Tag: Governance

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United States: SEC Adopts Amendments to Form PF and Significantly Expands Reporting Requirements
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EUROPE: Significant Changes Proposed to Market Abuse Regulation in the UK
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EUROPE: Here’s Your Chance to Improve the UK’s Senior Managers & Certification Regime
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EUROPE: Important issues still open for debate in EU’s AIFMD and UCITS reviews
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EUROPE:  FCA sets ambitious goal to improve asset management regulation in the UK

United States: SEC Adopts Amendments to Form PF and Significantly Expands Reporting Requirements

By: Pablo J. Man, Ruth E. Delaney, Matthew F. Phillips, and Gustavo De La Cruz Reynozo

On May 3, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved amendments to Form PF, the confidential reporting form required to be filed by private fund advisers. The amendments expand the scope of Form PF’s disclosure obligations to require large hedge fund advisers to file new “current” reports and all private equity fund advisers to file new quarterly reports upon the occurrence of certain events. Large private equity advisers will also be required to provide new information in their annual updates.

The amended Form PF will require:

  1. Current Reporting Requirements for Large Hedge Fund Advisers. In addition to their existing quarterly filing obligations, advisers with at least $1.5 billion in assets under management (“AUM”) attributable to hedge funds will be newly required to report certain events—such as extraordinary investment losses, significant margin and default events, and large withdrawal and redemption requests—as soon as practicable, but no later than 72 hours, after they occur.
  • Quarterly Reporting for Private Equity Fund Advisers. Within 60 days of the end of each fiscal quarter, each private equity fund adviser will be required to report any completion of an advisor-led secondary transaction or investor elections to remove a fund’s general partner or to terminate a fund’s investment period during the preceding quarter.
  • Additional Reporting for Large Private Equity Fund Advisers. Advisers with $2 billion or more of private equity fund AUM will be required to disclose a range of new information in their annual updates to Form PF, including: (a) information about the implementation of general partner and limited partner clawbacks; (b) details about a fund’s investment strategies; (c) additional information about fund-level borrowings; (d) more granular information about the nature of reported events of default; (e) additional identifying information about institutions providing bridge financing; and (f) information about a fund’s greatest country exposures.

The new “current” reporting and quarterly event reporting requirements take effect six months following publication of the final rule in the Federal Register. The other amendments take effect one year following publication of the final rule in the Federal Register.

EUROPE: Significant Changes Proposed to Market Abuse Regulation in the UK

By Michael Ruck and Aurelija Grubytė

HM Treasury and the FCA have completed their joint review of the criminal market abuse regime, and published a joint statement on 24 March 2023. Their observations are relevant to both the criminal and civil market abuse regimes in the UK.  Most notably:

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EUROPE: Here’s Your Chance to Improve the UK’s Senior Managers & Certification Regime

By Samuel Gordon

The FCA, PRA and UK Government are looking for feedback by 1 June 2023 to guide potential changes to the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR), the UK’s regime designed to improve individual accountability and conduct standards of (mostly) senior personnel in financial services firms. To this end, the FCA and PRA jointly published a discussion paper on 30 March and HM Treasury published a call for evidence.

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EUROPE: Important issues still open for debate in EU’s AIFMD and UCITS reviews

By Giovanni Campi

On 24 January 2023, the ECON Committee of the EU Parliament adopted its report on proposed amendments to the EU’s main fund rules, AIFMD and the UCITS Directive, ahead of trilogue negotiations with the EU Council and Commission set to begin in March.  When agreed, the revised Directives are expected to come into force in 2025 in light of the 24 months transposition period. Notable proposals include:

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EUROPE:  FCA sets ambitious goal to improve asset management regulation in the UK

By Robert Lloyd, Maya Ffrench-Adam and Philip Morgan

On 20 February 2023, the FCA published a discussion paper (DP23/2) on improving the UK asset management regime.  Key themes include:

Alignment with relevant international standards – The FCA does not want to create unnecessary complexity for firms operating in multiple jurisdictions. It aims to develop the regime to interact effectively with international requirements, while promoting the international competitiveness of the UK economy.

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