Just as the SEC publishes guidelines over registration requirements for buyout groups, a Republican-led effort to exempt private equity firms from SEC oversight has taken another step forward.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
The Scottish global investment management firm has created a new position to help accommodate its growing base of real estate LPs. Roberto Varandas, formerly with UBS, will fill that role as global head of property business development
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules surrounding required registration with the agency. Private fund managers must comply by 30 March 2012.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
Creditors for the North Carolina-based hotel chain are claiming the firms inflated the sales price of the company in the 2007 buyout, leaving the company insolvent.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has scheduled a meeting for 22 June to consider extending the SEC registration deadline and to adopt final rules.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
PERE presents 10 takeaways from this week’s PERE Forum: Europe conference.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
The Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles has appointed Jeff Rupp and and is to open an office in Brussels as it begins a greater lobby effort on regulatory issues.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
As California’s Fair Political Practices Commission investigates 49 CalPERS investment staff for gift reporting, CalSTRS officials, including Mike DiRe, have personally signed a letter saying they ‘stand by and support’ their counterparts.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The programme requires the US Securities and Exchange Commission to create an office that works with whistleblowers, who could set their sights on private equity firms.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Two former White & Case lawyers have joined the law firm's real estate practice group.
2 min read · 18 January 2013