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Investors say they cannot find useful information about private equity firms and their staff online, according to fresh research.

The chairman of the IFRS Foundation Trustee, Michel Prada, recently urged countries to adopt wholesale a consistent set of global accounting standards.   

Confidence is returning to the private equity markets, but some GPs may only be able to take advantage by structuring deal-by-deal funds. Private equity lawyer Eamon Devlin outlines the benefits of this approach.

A pan-EU marketing passport rewarded to fund managers for AIFMD compliance will be ignored by non-EU fund managers if private placement regimes remain accessible, predict industry sources.

Year-end tax preparations for 2013 are set to be more onerous relative to years past, but that doesn’t mean GPs can’t take certain actions to reduce the workload. 

Despite messages from senior German lawmakers that Germany would push for a financial transaction tax, deputy conservative party leader, Volker Bouffier, told local newspapers the tax would have devastating consequences.

GPs with funds domiciled in the Cayman Islands will report LP tax information to local authorities, who will submit those reports to UK tax officials.  

A former industry lawyer replaces Scott Arenare as the private equity firm’s chief in-house legal advisor.  

Private equity firms aren’t paying their portfolio company executives as much money as venture capital firms and comparably sized public companies, according to a recent survey.