Substantial financial regulatory changes are expected during a Trump Administration, including changes impacting banking, private equity, capital markets and SEC enforcement activity.

In his November 14, 2016 client memo, Oaktree Capital Management’s Co-Chairman, Howard Marks, reflects on political forecasting, the outlook for the Trump Presidency and the U.S. electoral college.

Because self-reporting to the SEC affords little measurable credit while guaranteeing a negative outcome in the form of at least an investigation (and likely an enforcement proceeding), private equity firms need to think long and hard before self-reporting misconduct or violations of the U.S. federal securities laws.

This article reviews the evolution of key conditionality terms in private equity-led going-private deals over the past two decades.

During his campaign, President-elect Trump made critical comments concerning U.S. international trade agreements, the Paris climate accord and the Iran nuclear deal. Under the U.S. Constitution, the President is vested with broad power to act in the sphere of foreign affairs, but that Executive power is not absolute.

The 2016 elections will have important consequences for the U.S. healthcare industry. In this article we try to read the tea leaves, despite the absence of any detailed policy proposals by President-elect Trump.

Recent analysis suggests that the SEC staff repeatedly focuses on a short list of disclosure topics when reviewing IPO registration statements of private equity portfolio companies.

The final U.S. debt equity regulations provide welcome relief for the private equity industry. The IRS did not apply the final rules to typical blocker structures, and it also limited the reach of the attribution rules, which as originally proposed could have caused third-party commercial loans between private equity portfolio companies and banks to be subject to these rules.