Strictly Business
A legal blog on private funds, startups, and venture capital.
Strictly Business
A legal blog on private funds, startups, and venture capital.
Category Private Equity and Hedge Funds
The minimum net worth required of individual investors in private funds will soon increase.
By now, most managers of hedge funds, private equity funds, and venture capital funds know that they will be required to either register with the SEC or file Form ADV as a notice filing. But there is an additional…
Are real estate fund managers required to be registered as investment advisers?
After my recent post regarding exemption from investment adviser registration of venture capital funds and small hedge funds, I had a number of people ask me about the status of real estate funds under the new regime. Do the managers…
Is due diligence going to get a whole lot more complicated for angel financings and fund offerings?
In recent rule-making, the SEC, at Congress’s behest, has proposed a rule that will increase due diligence requirements for Rule 506 offerings, which are the type of securities offering most frequently used by startups for their seed and angel rounds…
Exempt Reporting Adviser Filing Requirements for Private Fund Advisers
It is widely known that under the Dodd-Frank Act passed last year, private fund managers with assets under management of $150 million or more will be required to register as investment advisers with the SEC. It’s also widely known that…