Regulatory update | The DRAWDºWN

18 May 2020

Comment: Secondaries legal issues and risks

Jonathan Blake, Stephen Newby and Shantanu Naravane at Herbert Smith Freehills consider investor liquidity in private funds, GP-led secondaries, principal legal issues and key risks

11 May 2020

Join us: CFOs & FD networks

Part one of our mini series on networks in PE: this instalment considers CFO & FD networks and finds they can be more hindrance than help

28 April 2020

Proposed ESG disclosures open for consultation

This is the next step in increasing clarity around ESG reporting, and gives some idea of what might be expected of firms going forward

23 April 2020

ESMA, FCA extend annual reporting deadlines

The guidance is for private fund managers following the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive

30 March 2020

COVID-19: Economic substance adjustments

Could temporary measures drive global consensus on economic substance requirements?

27 March 2020

Hazard warning: valuations in the midst of volatility

Key considerations for valuing portfolio companies in current conditions

27 March 2020

IPEV releases statement on fair value

LPs have a critical need at 31 March 2020 for their GPs to report underlying investments at fair value on a timely, consistent and rigorously determined basis.

20 March 2020

Guernsey and Jersey adjust substance requirements

Guernsey and Jersey have collectively adjusted their requirements for economic substance amid the outbreak of Covid-19, to help reduce the spread of the virus

9 March 2020

PE faces tighter remuneration rules

Bank-style regulation continues to extend to private capital markets, says Linklaters

17 February 2020

Face value

A group of venture capital CFOs sat down with The Drawdown to discuss challenges of valuing pre-revenue companies and implications of the new IPEV guidelines

9 January 2020

Valuations what’s new, what’s not and what matters

A round-up of recent regulatory developments for private equity valuation practices

19 December 2019

Take the risk

The cultural shift towards robust risk management is finding its way to private equity, and with it, the potential to unravel entrenched structures.

16 December 2019

Craic on

Reforms to Ireland’s LP structure will likely be legislated in early 2020, however, after years of promises, what will actually be legislated and will PE care?