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Hedge fund Bulldog Investors is suing the SEC, arguing non-registered funds have a right to advertise.

Despite vigorous lobbying by business groups, the UK government has pushed ahead with its plans to introduce the annual levy on foreigners working in Britain.

Jennifer Zarrilli has been with the energy firm for 10 years.

Many GPs are hoping to avoid a scenario whereby they report the fair value of an LBO deal as worthless.

Infrastructure investment 2008-04-01 Staff Writer You have one partner at Heathrow airport. Another is at his vacation home in Martha's Vineyard. Another is spending the week in the Hong Kong office. All of them want one thing ? access to a single document located on the Q drive back at headquarters. If they

A new wave of alternative investment in the developing world is fundamentally different than past expansions, Harvard professor Josh Lerner told attendees at the 2008 Emerging Markets Private Equity Forum in New York, co-hosted by Private Equity International and EMPEA.

The listed alternative asset manager incurred losses on its investments in four Permira portfolio companies last year, but its fund management business grew and Permira made ten profitable realisations.

Simon Walker has supported growing momentum to make the transparency reforms apply beyond the UK shortly after PEO revealed they currently affect only 32 portfolio companies.

In spite of the credit crunch, the global mega funds took centre stage in the Private Equity International Awards 2007. Mid-market resilience also found favour with voters in the only truly democratic private equity awards.

So much of what is discussed in the pages of PEI Manager concerns how private equity and venture firms are defining and refining their administrative roles, from who tackles HR, to who chooses the IT provider. For many VC firms, these tasks still land on the plate of the office manager. Tracey Miles was one such manager who felt that she and her peers at other firms would benefit from sharing best practices. So she founded the Venture Capital Office Managers Association (VCOMA), a trade group that gives these office managers a place to exchange ideas, commiserate and pool purchasing power to win discounts from vendors. Rob Kotecki recently spoke with Miles about the association, its roots and its agenda.