Private investments funds (hedge funds, PE firms, venture capital funds and the like) are a significant part of the U.S. economy. From a management liability insurance perspective, private investment funds present unique underwriting and claims issues. In the following guest post, David Topol, takes a detailed look at these kinds of enterprises, and considers the relevant claims and insurance issues. David is a partner in the insurance practice at Wiley. He has substantial experience over the past fifteen years representing insurers as monitoring counsel and in coverage litigation on policies issued to investment advisers, private funds and broker-dealers. A version of this article will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Wiley law firm’s Executive Summary blog. I would like to thanks David for allowing me to publish his article as a guest post on this site. I welcome guest post submissions from responsible authors on topics of interest to this blog’s readers. Please contact me directly if you would like to submit a guest post. Here is David’s article.
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Guest Post: Evolving Solutions for Private Capital Investors
In a three-post series, Jonathan Legge, a Senior Vice President at RT ProExec, is taking a look at the key insurance issues relating to Private Capital Investment. In the first of the three articles in the series (here), Jon examined the issues involved with getting the insurance for private equity-backed portfolio companies’ right. In the second post in the series (here), Jon discussed transactional risk insurance, and in particular, contingent liability insurance. In today’s post, the third and final post in the series, John takes a look at the evolving insurance solutions for Private Capital investors’ changing needs. I would like to thank Jon for allowing me to publish his series of articles as guest posts on this site. I welcome guest post submissions from responsible authors on topics of interest to this site’s readers. Please contact me directly if you would like to submit a guest post. Here is Jon’s article.
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Guest Post: The SEC Continues to Turn Up the Heat on Private Equity
In the following guest post, Elan Kandel, who is a member of the Cozen O’Connor law firm, takes a look at the SEC’s recent investigative interest in the way private equity firms disclose their fees. He also reviews the insurance issues these types of SEC investigations and enforcement actions raise. A version of this article…