On February 9, in a 3-1 vote, the SEC approved a rule proposal (the "Proposed Rule”) that represents a sea-change in the Commission’s approach to private funds, with the Proposed Rule including provisions that would impose on private fund advisers certain standardized prohibitions and requirements. These include:
• prohibitions on certain fee and expense arrangements, and other adviser relationships with a private fund and its portfolio investments;
• prohibition on certain types of preferred terms for investors, and required disclosure with respect to other preferential terms;
• an obligation to provide quarterly statements containing specified fee, performance, and portfolio investment information to investors;
• mandatory private fund audits with certain requirements that go beyond the Custody Rule audit provisions;
• fairness opinion requirements for adviser-led secondaries; among other obligations.
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