Nicholas Donato

With carried interest tax clearly back on legislators' agendas, the Private Equity Growth Capital Council recently released a whiteboard video defending carry's capital gains status.

With carried interest tax clearly back on legislators' agendas, the Private Equity Growth Capital Council recently released a whiteboard video defending carry's capital gains status.

Recent examinations of private equity firms are helping regulators understand the complex world of private equity, according to speakers at PEI’s CFOs and COOs Forum 2013 in New York.

GPs worried they could be on the hook for a bankrupt portfolio company’s pension plan are being advised to consider a co-investment strategy – an issue highlighted by a recent district court ruling in the US.

The European Commission has adopted long-awaited AIFM ‘level 2’ measures that GPs hoped would be scrapped during follow-up rulemaking.

Private Equity firms and the banks that supply much of their capital will reportedly have to wait until 2013 to read a final draft of the closely watched Volcker Rule.   The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), one of the rule’s lead authors, declined to comment on any implementation timetable, though several regulatory lawyers confirmed […]

The revised guidelines feature an expanded list of ‘essential disclosures’ but do not mandate a specific submission format.

Non-US private equity firms have been given another year to prepare for the complex US tax law.

Would the bankrupt department store chain’s accusations of ‘fraudulent conveyance’ on the part of its private equity sponsors have stood up in court?

Advanced Equities co-founders Dwight Badger and Keith Daubenspeck have both been charged in connection with two private equity offerings made in 2009 and 2010.