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Investment Impact: Wrench Group CEO Explains How Private Equity Investment Creates Jobs, Strengthens Businesses
There are over 4,700 private equity firms all over America, owning and building approximately over 30,000 private companies. Recently, the Wrench Group…
Debt Portability Can Deliver a Better Exit (Latham & Watkins LLP)
By Dennis Lamont, Partner and Howard Sobel, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
Debt financing documents typically contain a change of control feature that triggers an event of default, or requires a…
2018 AIC Public Pension Study: Private Equity Delivers Highest Returns for Public Pension Funds
WASHINGTON – Today, the American Investment Council (AIC) released its 2018 Public Pension Study, which analyzes investment returns by 163 U.S. public pension funds and highlights how private…
Private Equity Investment Volume Doubles from 2017
WASHINGTON – US private equity investment volume increased to $57 billion in the first quarter of 2018, a staggering 159 percent increase from the first quarter of 2017, according to the American…
Policy Articles
International Issues: Positioning U.S. Private Equity Firms and Funds in Global Markets
The AIC is the voice for private equity in the United States, but we also work to ensure U.S. private equity firms and the funds they manage receive fair treatment in other countries. We agree with…
Policy Articles
Tax Regulatory Priorities
The enactment of tax reform legislation in late 2017 began a second phase of tax reform in the regulatory space. The private equity industry, working through the AIC, will be working over the coming…
Policy Articles
The JOBS Act and Public Shareholder Communications
The AIC urges the SEC to simplify the verification of investor status and provide further assurances on what constitutes “general solicitation” to allow for normal business reporting without…
Policy Articles
The Advertising Rule
The AIC urges the SEC to modernize the Advertising Rule to better meet the demands of the 21st century.
The SEC’s Advertising Rule (Rule 206(4)-1), which has not been amended since its adoption…
Policy Articles
The Custody Rule
The AIC urges the SEC to update the Custody Rule to remove unnecessary burdens.
The SEC’s Custody Rule (Rule 206(4)-2) imposes many unnecessary burdens on private fund sponsors with respect to the…
Policy Articles
The SEC’s Auditor Independence Rules
The AIC urges the SEC to clarify the applicability of its auditor independence rules in the private equity context to reduce the detrimental effects on capital formation caused by the current…
Policy Articles
Investment Advisers are Not Broker-Dealers
Investment Advisers are Not Broker-Dealers:
The AIC urges the SEC to confirm that broker-dealer regulations do not apply to private equity investment advisers merely because they may receive fees in…
Legislative Priorities
CFIUS Reform
WHAT IS IT?
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is an interagency committee tasked with reviewing potential foreign investments in the U.S. and determining whether such…
New Mountain Capital’s Steve Klinsky Elected Chairman of the American Investment Council
WASHINGTON – The American Investment Council (AIC) announced today the election of Steve Klinsky as Chairman of the AIC’s Board of Directors. Since 1999, Klinsky has been Founder and Chief…
Private Equity Across America: Louisville
The private equity industry employs millions of Americans and provides a secure retirement for schoolteachers, police officers, and other pension holders. In the months ahead, the American…
Mehlman Expresses Appreciation for Sommers’ Strong Leadership at the AIC
Washington, D.C. – Today, American Investment Council (AIC) board member Ken Mehlman released the following statement of appreciation for Mike Sommers’ service as AIC President and CEO. Sommers…
ICYMI: Yale University’s Annual Endowment Report Strengthens Support for Private Equity
Yale Endowment Update 2017: “The alternatives of absolute return, private equity, venture capital, natural resources, and real estate provide not only diversification benefits, but also abundant…
Private Equity Across America: San Antonio
The private equity industry employs millions of Americans and provides a secure retirement for schoolteachers, police officers, and other pension holders. In the months ahead, the American Investment…
Private Equity Continues Positive Annualized Returns For Long-Term Investors
WASHINGTON – Today, the American Investment Council (AIC) released its new 2017 Q3 Performance Update Report that showed private equity funds continue to outperform public markets over the long…
Key Imperatives For PE From The Global PE Watch 2018 (EY)
The views reflected in this article are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the American Investment Council.
By: Herb Engert, EY Global Private Equity Leader
It’s…