Compliance & Regulation

London-based COO Paul Cunningham of Barclays Private Equity believes consolidated accounting is something the European private equity industry could do without. Here, he explains why - as well as discussing some of the other leading back office issues du jour.

Private equity and hedge funds are using a new type of vehicle to tap into the reinsurance market. By Andrew Sommer, Stephen Hertz and Michael Devins

As hedge funds engage in private equity-style' investing, the side pocket has come under greater application and security . By Judy Kuan

The evolution of private equity fund structures in Australia has involved two steps forward and one step back.

The GP commitment is not typically a negotiated term, but LPs nevertheless feel it speaks volume about a GPs willingness to put his best ideas into the fund. By Rob Kotecki

Private Equity Manager profiles five limited partnerships that strayed from the terms and conditions norm. Two got away with it, one didn't, and two are about to find out.

Robert Cleveland 2006-10-01 Staff Writer <bold>Career path:</bold> Received his JD from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Cardozo Law Review. Cleveland has been associated with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Wilmington, Delaware,

As Latin America moves toward recovery, two Skadden M&A experts are in the midst of helping GPs move in and out of the region.

With a new $7.8 billion energy fund and a presence in London, Tokyo and Shanghai, First Reserve's office culture is absorbing the fast-breaking expansion.

FRONTLINE 2006-10-01 Staff Writer Wells Fargo to buy Barrington AssociatesWells Fargo & Co. has agreed to buy Los Angeles-based Barrington Associates, which provides merger and acquisition advisory services to private equity firms and entrepreneurowned companies. Financial