Bill Myers
Bill Myers is Regulatory Compliance Watch’s editor. He focuses on private equity and hedge funds, based in our Rockville office. He’s been a newsman for two decades in Chicago, Cambodia and Washington DC.
‘It’s unbelievable how well the industry performed for many years,’ Steve Kaplan told a standing-room only crowd at Private Fund CFO’s New York Forum.
US regulators have shown an abiding interest in post-commitment fees, and here’s how GPs can stay above reproach.
The private funds industry and its regulators have a lot of work ahead of them as private equity enters its retail era.
Early draft of legislation protects 'loophole', targets cuts to Biden-era stimulus, affiliate Private Funds CFO has learned.
The debate over taxing carried interest has returned, as President Trump looks to prioritise middle-class tax relief.
Outgoing Biden administration says private equity titan 'systemically flouted' laws; KKR accuses DOJ of 'overreach'.
A new bill would, if signed, require private fund managers to get the state attorney general’s approval for healthcare transactions.
‘The private equity industry has been subject to a public discourse that makes the industry a convenient target, but not a valid one,’ Simpson Thacher partner Abram Ellis says.
With SEC rules scuttled, the Institutional Limited Partners Association is seeking 'something that the industry can work together on collaboratively', according to its managing director of industry affairs.
In wake of Fifth Circuit decision, rules should be scrapped or carve out private fund managers, groups claim.