News & Analysis

When legal superstars jump ship to new law firms, their GP clients must weigh a host of factors when deciding if they should follow suit.

The Internal Revenue Service recently opened an online registration portal for GPs subject to the globe-wide US tax reporting bill FATCA. Industry tax and legal experts guide PE Manager through the registration process.

Just a month after being forced to drop it’s A$65 million break-up fee Altamont Capital Partners has lost out to Centerbridge Partners and Oaktree Capital Management in providing Billabong with financing.

Professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal is setting up a transaction advisory group in India led by Vikram Utamsingh.

Who are the most influential lawyers working in the private equity industry today? We asked a cross-section of GPs, LPs and other advisors – and these are the thirty names that came to the fore.

Setterwalls partners Sören Brekell (pic) and Niclas Hermansson answer when GPs should consider changing their tax structure in light of a recent tax crackdown in Sweden.

The founder of UK-based Better Capital and industry veteran Jon Moulton slammed the EU directive at the AVCAL conference in Australia this week.

PE Manager tracks private equity lawyer moves: Kirkland & Ellis deepens its footprint in Greater China; a former SEC private funds official joins Stroock; Duane Morris opens in Myanmar; and more.

Asia's top fund domicile signed cooperation agreements with multiple European securities regulators in preparation for the pan-EU directive.

Stakeholders want US accounting standard-setters to focus their attention on disclosure notes, which critics say have become too dry and technical to be of much value.