Our Private Equity Group is considered the go-to practice for complex, bespoke and firm-defining transactions. With clients ranging from the world’s leading institutional asset managers to prominent middle-market private equity and growth equity firms, we offer comprehensive advice to general partners, limited partners, co-investors and other equity stakeholders, as well as portfolio companies, lenders and financial sponsor groups. The depth and continuity of our relationships across the industry gives us a nuanced understanding of each client’s objectives and allows us to provide seamless, efficient counsel across the investment lifecycle.
March 2020 Private Equity Digest
March 23, 2020 Download PDF
Final regulations implementing the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA) recently went into effect. FIRRMA (and these new regulations) significantly expand the jurisdiction of the interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) and the related ability of the U.S. president to block or unwind a transaction. In this issue, our International Trade Counsel Richard Elliot discusses some of the important takeaways from these new regulations for private equity firms, including changes in CFIUS filing risks and risks associated with non-U.S. limited partner investments and governance rights.