Legal & Regulation

The ninth edition of our law firm survey shows top law firms advising on a collective $1.03tn of transaction volume, nearly $150bn greater than cumulative numbers seen last year.

The two New York-based partners’ clients include Brookfield Asset Management, Coller Capital, PSP and StepStone.

The secondaries market is shrouded in uncertainty after this week’s volatility. There are, however, reasons to remain upbeat over the longer term.

With market watchdogs looking more closely at private asset pricing, affiliate title Private Equity International spoke to managers of semi-liquid funds about their valuation methods.

Eye-watering legal charges have been likened to ‘racketeering’; industry co-operation could solve the problem.

Transfer agreements are seen as a $100,000 'copy & paste job' by some and 'complex legal contracts' that law firms are losing money on by others.

To create a more comprehensive apples-to-apples comparison, respondents to Secondaries Investor's annual law firm survey were provided with this set of parameters.

A court of appeals decision in the US this week to render null and void the SEC’s private fund rule doesn’t signal the end of efforts to better protect investors.

Iron Road Partners’ Igor Rozenblit – former co-head of the SEC's private funds unit – details concerns and red flags the regulator will be looking for following the passing of its private market rules last year.