News & Analysis

Shortly after EU sovereigns introduced a tax on financial transactions, similar legislation was introduced in the US Senate and House.

Provisions in India's Budget 2013 are aimed at attracting foreign investment, but ambiguities regarding private equity taxation have left recurring questions unanswered.

KKR's co-founders took home nearly 50% more in total compensation in 2012 compared to 2011, while Blackstone chief Steve Schwarzman’s annual pay remained flat year-over-year.

The Colorado Securities Division has launched a complaint against Gary Snisky, and two others, who allegedly defrauded at least 20 investors.

Large pension funds are the primary catalyst of the private equity industry's institutionalization, according to one LP, who describes them as 'elephants tiptoeing' into the asset class.

Some firm’s portfolio companies are still unable to meet the required standard for the UK’s voluntary disclosure rules.

Can a private fund manager’s carried interest escape its reach? Hirschler Fleischer partners Kevin Brandon and Brian Farmer provide some answers.

Accusations of fraud against the New York investment firm have been dismissed on account of its partnership shares being sold via private placements.

Clifford Chance and SJ Berwin have retained their crowns as Europe’s premier private equity legal advisors, but in North America Simpson Thacher & Bartlett was knocked from its perch as preferred law firm for deal work.

LPs tend to hold the upper hand before a capital commitment is made to a fund, but afterward the LP-GP relationship becomes much more symbiotic, delegates heard at the PERE Summit: Asia in Hong Kong.