The year promises to be an active one for regulatory initiatives and the EMPEA Winter Bulletin focuses on positive as well as challenging developments including the impact of MiFID II in the UK on emerging market fund managers, recent shareholder and creditor pre-investment corporate restructuring limitations in Nigeria, the relaxation of licensing and registration for private, non-real estate investment funds and asset… Read More
Does Law Matter? Although that may be an odd question for a practicing lawyer to pose, it is a central question for legal academics and policy-makers – in all countries, and across all fields of activity. How does any particular law affect the way people behave? Is it a force for good, or does… Read More
The Cayman Islands has long had a robust anti-money laundering and combatting of terrorist financing regime (the AML Regime) aimed at ensuring that Cayman Islands financial service providers adopt appropriate procedures to safeguard against the commission of money laundering and/or terrorist financing offences. This article explores a number of significant changes to the regulatory framework… Read More
Download Private Equity’s Role in Delivering the SDGs: Current Approaches and Good Practice Executive Summary The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs or Global Goals) provide a global framework for addressing the most urgent global social and environmental challenges. They set out a pathway to inclusive growth and represent a… Read More
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has identified and championed a pressing issue that is, at once, a major public policy imperative and a crucial concern for the international investment community: how to mobilize greater flows of private equity (PE) capital for private sector development in emerging markets… Read More
Key findings from the 2018 Global Limited Partners Survey include: A higher proportion of respondents* plans to increase the dollar value of their commitments to EM PE than in any edition of the survey since 2014, suggesting cautious optimism may be in order for EM-focused fund managers. Read More
By Hayley Brady, Senior Associate and Clare Hubert, Associate at Herbert Smith Freehills Introduction Booking your latest holiday? Ordering a pizza? Selecting your new sofa? The chances are you will be using an online platform. The growth of online platforms, as part of the on-demand economy, is on a constant… Read More
India-based mid-priced hotel chain Lemon Tree Hotels has raised INR10.38 billion (approximately US$159 million) in its initial public offering (IPO) on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India. Lemon Tree’s investors sold 186 million shares at a price of INR56 (approximately US$0.86) per share in the offering. Read More
EMPEA Members log in to receive exclusive access to the detailed report (PDF) and underlying data (Excel). Download the Year-End 2017 Statistics (PDF) » Fundraising highlights from EMPEA’s Year-End 2017 Industry Statistics: The composition of fundraising by strategy has shifted as venture capital, infrastructure and private credit… Read More
By Ann Marie Plubell, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, EMPEA Introduction The complexity of tax considerations on the strategic decision to select and enter an emerging market cannot be denied. The value of early tax analysis from multiple perspectives for both the funds (here termed “GPs”) and the investors in… Read More
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