News & Analysis

The Private Equity Growth Capital Council increased its effort to combat negative perceptions of private equity as the election season enters its final months.

The firm, which provides portfolio companies help with their financials, is now offering clients what could be described as a high end ‘CFO for hire’ service, PE Manager has exclusively learned.

SJ Berwin’s Philipp Girardet talks to PE Manager about how GPs can avoid fines and reputational damage by ensuring portfolio companies do not engage in anti-competitive behaviour.

Merger filing fees in Italy will be abolished and are to set be replaced with a mandatory competition fee.

The operational due diligence provider has planted its flag in San Francisco to help LPs inspect fund managers’ back office functions.

Ireland will use the implementation of the AIFM Directive to rethink its regulatory framework for private funds, which may mean scaling back current requirements.

An IPO scandal has pressured China regulators to tighten rules on IPOs, pushing PE and VC to consider other exit strategies.

PwC assurance partner Paula Smith has moved to the firm’s London office to become the accounting firm's UK asset management leader. Here she tells us what prompted the move and what she expects for private equity.

Not all private equity investors in Latin America are satisfied with GPs’ level of adherence to industry valuation and reporting standards, according to a recent survey from Coller Capital and trade body LAVCA.

Dana Pawlicki, a founding partner of Evercore Partners private funds group, has joined start-up fundraising firm Stonington Capital.