Chief financial officers, general counsels and compliance staff were busy in 2018 tackling issues from tax reform and carried interest to data privacy and Abraaj’s failure.
AIFMD was supposed to make it easier and more efficient for fund managers to raise capital in Europe. Pierre Weimerskirch of LIS – a SANNE company – asks whether it has succeeded.
Stiff penalties apply to GPs eyeing deals in France who do not comply with rules around foreign investment and obtaining merger clearance, according to law firm Franklin.
Credit should be given to the UK government for listening carefully to concerns expressed by stakeholders in private equity modifying its proposals, write Simon Witney and Christopher Boyne.