Regulation & Legal

Self-regulation under the microscope

The overturning of a plan to increase SEC oversight leaves private debt continuing to attract scrutiny from a wide range of organisations – including LPs.

ELTIF 2.0: Slow off the mark but picking up pace

Private debt is playing catch-up in attracting investors from the retail space, but new legislation is helping.

Jirí Król: Regulation has become Washington’s new toy

Recent congressional letters show private credit is facing increasing levels of regulatory scrutiny, says the global head of the Alternative Credit Council

Brevet: Improving public policy with private credit

Serving as the bridge between small to medium-sized businesses and government programmes is a rewarding process that can stimulate innovation, say Brevet Capital’s Douglas Monticciolo and Mei-Li da Silva Vint.

Five key trends in speciality finance: Litigation finance

Legal assets offer attractive uncorrelated returns.

US Supreme Court: Defendants have right to jury trial for securities fraud allegations

Case involving hedge funds lending to start-ups represents a blow to the SEC.

What the Fifth Circuit ignored in its ruling

The decision on the SEC’s private fund rules was made for the right reason. There was also a troublesome ‘wrong reason’ in the mix, but the court ignored it.

Appeals court scuttles SEC’s private fund rules

Court hands big victory to private funds. Rifts in LP community may have aided the downfall of the regulatory package.

Regulators look out for trouble

In both the US and Europe, regulators are taking a keen interest in private debt, write McDermott Will & Emery’s Aymen Mahmoud, Riley Orloff and Matthias Weissinger. But do regulators have a distorted view of the asset class’s risks?