Tag:Private Equity Funds

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United States: The Great SEC Spring Clean Up–14 Proposals Wiped Away
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United States: STOP! START AGAIN! JUST KIDDING, STOP AGAIN! SEC Provides 11th Hour Extension of Compliance Date for Amended Form PF
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Europe: UK’s FCA Intensifies Scrutiny on Private Markets Valuations
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Australia: Review Recommends No Increases to Wholesale Client Test, Encourages Further Review
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United States: “Oops, I was a Broker!?” SEC Cracks Down on Investment Adviser Representatives Acting as Unregistered Brokers
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United States: Federal Court Vacates SEC’s Expanded Dealer Definition
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United States: US Finalizes Restrictions on Outbound Investments Into China’s Semiconductors, Quantum Technologies and AI – Implications on US LP Investors
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United States: Cooking the Books: CFTC Turns Up the Heat on Voluntary Carbon Market Fraudsters
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United States: Why the CTA Should Be at the Top of Your End-of-Year Checklist
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United States: Extra Credit Projects: SEC Settles Charges Against Carbon Offset Project Developer for US$250 Million Offering Fraud

United States: The Great SEC Spring Clean Up–14 Proposals Wiped Away

By: Lance C. Dial, Keri E. Riemer, and Lael R. Franco

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, including several that had been vigorously opposed by the industry. A complete list is below, but highlights include proposed rules relating to safeguarding (custody), predictive data analytics (AI), ESG-related disclosures, outsourcing and cybersecurity.

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United States: STOP! START AGAIN! JUST KIDDING, STOP AGAIN! SEC Provides 11th Hour Extension of Compliance Date for Amended Form PF

By: Pablo J. Man and Ruth E. Delaney

With less than a day to go before the 12 June 2025 compliance date for the SEC and CFTC’s jointly adopted amendments to Form PF, the SEC, together with the CFTC, voted today to further extend the compliance date for the amended form to 1 October 2025.

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Europe: UK’s FCA Intensifies Scrutiny on Private Markets Valuations

By: Daniel Greenaway and Flavio Picaro

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has published the findings of its multi-firm review of valuation processes for private market assets. This review follows the highlighting of vulnerabilities in private markets stemming, in part, from opaque valuations, in both the Bank of England’s June 2024 Financial Stability Report and IOSCO’s September 2023 report on emerging risks in private finance markets.

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Australia: Review Recommends No Increases to Wholesale Client Test, Encourages Further Review

By: Kane Barnett and Bernard Sia

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services (Committee) has been inquiring into the wholesale investor test for offers of securities, and the wholesale client test for financial products and services in the Corporations Act 2001 (Inquiry) (see our previous post). The Committee has now released its report from the Inquiry.

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United States: “Oops, I was a Broker!?” SEC Cracks Down on Investment Adviser Representatives Acting as Unregistered Brokers

By Richard Kerr, Pablo Man, Jessica Cohn, and Sydney Faehling

On 14 January 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced settled charges against three investment adviser representatives for acting as unregistered brokers in the sale of membership interests in certain limited liability companies (i.e., Funds) that each purportedly owned shares of private issuers that had prospects of becoming publicly traded. The SEC separately announced settled charges against an advisory firm in a related action involving improperly managing conflicts of interests and the use of liability waivers.

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United States: Federal Court Vacates SEC’s Expanded Dealer Definition

By: Eden L. Rohrer, Richard F. Kerr, Jessica D. Cohn, and Joshua L. Durham

On 21 November 2024, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas (Court) ruled against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in two separate cases, vacating its rule which expanded the definition of securities dealers.

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United States: US Finalizes Restrictions on Outbound Investments Into China’s Semiconductors, Quantum Technologies and AI – Implications on US LP Investors

By Yuki Sako, Nathaniel Bolin, and Steven Hill

On 28 October, US Treasury issued new rules that restrict investment in Chinese development of semiconductors, quantum computing and AI (Covered Activity). Taking effect on 2 January 2025, the new rules are based on findings that China’s support for those industries threatens US national security.

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United States: Cooking the Books: CFTC Turns Up the Heat on Voluntary Carbon Market Fraudsters

By: Cheryl L. Isaac, Clifford C. Histed, and Benjamin C. Skillin

On 2 October 2024, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced multiple actions related to fraud in the voluntary carbon credit (VCC) market, just over one year after establishing the Environmental Fraud Task Force. Specifically, the CFTC filed a complaint in federal court against the former CEO of a carbon credit project developer and, on the same day, settled charges against CQC Impact Investors LLC (CQC) and its former COO, all related to a deceptive scheme purportedly intended to reduce carbon emissions. 

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United States: Why the CTA Should Be at the Top of Your End-of-Year Checklist

By: C. Todd Gibson, Robert H. McCarthy Jr., and Jamie M. Robinson

The time has come to finalize those end-of-year checklists and for anyone with US entities, foreign entities doing business in the United States, or for those who are planning to form or register entities to do business in the United States, the United States Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) should be at the top of the list. This includes investment advisers and funds that they manage.

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United States: Extra Credit Projects: SEC Settles Charges Against Carbon Offset Project Developer for US$250 Million Offering Fraud

By: Pablo Man and Benjamin Skillin

On 2 October 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced settled charges against one of the largest carbon credit project developers (the Developer), for fraudulently altering data concerning its business and making material misrepresentations in the offering of equity to institutional investors in the United States. The SEC’s order found that the Developer violated Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder.  

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